FAST BUT LOST : Overcoming Depression in City Life

Feeling low or know someone who is? "Fast but Lost" by Dr. Pallavi Joshi explores depression in urban India, offering insights on work-life balance, relationships, and myths about treatment. Recognizing and addressing depression is crucial for improving quality of life.

Do you feelike just staying in bed every morning? Maybe you don''t feelike going to work either and have no energy to talk to your family or meet up with friends. Or maybe someone close to you has been feeling down for aong time. Are you or youroved one going through just a bad patch? Or is it something more serious? Could it be depression? Regardless of how successful you are in yourife, there may come a time when you faceow moods and sometimes even depression. This is simply a consequence of our urbanifestyle and the often stressful and disorienting circumstances in which weive. And a key to navigate through these is to understand and address them. Based on Dr Pallavi Joshi''s extensive experience in diagnosing and treating clinical depression, Fast butost can help you do just that. Focusing on depression in urban India, it addresses special challengesike maintaining a work“life balance, dissatisfactory relationships, poorifestyle and disillusionment. This book also addresses the myths and facts about depression and its treatment. Through stories and case studies, Dr Joshi helps you understand your own condition and/or helpoved ones around you. The concerning fact is that many people spend years or even their wholeife suffering from depression without recognizing that it''s a treatable illness. Correct and timely treatment can drastically improve the quality ofife of a person suffering from depression. Fast butost can make you aware of this silent killer and help destigmatize the illness and its treatment.