It is a fact of life that everyone has times in their life when things are not as good as they could be, times when people feel down and miserable. For most of us however, times such as these are transient, periods that we quickly come through before emerging from the dark times and into the light of ‘normality’ once again.For a significant (and growing) number of people, their reality is unfortunately not like this. It is one where the dark times represent the norm, because they suffer varying degrees of unhappiness and anguish on an almost daily basis, and just getting through each day is a significant challenge for them.The degree to which people can feel this way differs from person to person, but for those who suffer the most, genuine depression is the reality of the life that they face every day.There is no doubt that there are millions of people all over the world who have a very serious problem with depression, and there is little doubt that most of these people are taking pharmaceutical drugs to deal with their problem. Indeed, according to this website, it is estimated that nearly 10% of the population of the USA suffers from depression, which equates to nearly 20 million adults, so both the scale of the problem and the amount of pharmaceutical drugs being consumed is huge.The saddest thing is, it is not always necessary to take drugs, because there is an abundance of completely natural ways that you can treat depression, many of which have every chance of achieving outstanding success.In this book, you will read of many of these methods of banishing depression entirely naturally, but before beginning to consider what these natural remedies for this debilitating illness are, let us first analyze exactly what depression is in a little more detail so that we know we are working with the facts.