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Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed. While they seek help for mental disorders more often than men, they also seek to help others, trying to keep everyone happy while taking care of parents, spouses, and children. Sometimes, doing it all is doing too much.In Finding Your Emotional Balance, Dr. Merry Noel Miller offers women of all ages advice for coping with life's challenges while increasing its joys. Drawing on her three decades of experience as a psychiatrist specializing in women's mental health -- as well as her own personal struggles with depression and grief -- she explains the special vulnerabilities and strengths of women during adolescence, the childbearing years, menopause, and late in life. Dr. Miller opens each chapter with stories about women who are dealing with issues related to their stage in life.
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Merry Noel Miller, M.D. is a practicing psychiatrist with over 30 years of experience, and is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University. She received her Bachelor of Science degree at Rhodes College, earned a Master's degree in Biochemistry and a M.D. degree at the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences, and did her Psychiatry residency at Duke University. She served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at ETSU from 2001-2012. She has focused her teaching and research career on women's mental health. She has also personally experienced and recovered from both severe depression and grief. She has drawn on both her personal and professional experiences to write a self-help book for women entitled "Finding Your Emotional Balance: A Guide for Women", published December 2015 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
