Abby congratulations on this news, I am so glad this seems to be working well toward getting you the help you need. Having support of family is so important and I'm really glad that they understand and are willing to be supportive. The fact that your uncle also suffers will be an important bit of info for you and for your therapist. It helps toward understanding that depression is an illness and not a weakness when you realize there is a medical genetic link and often these illnesses occur for several family members.

If your family is willing you can show them the books the doc gave you so they can learn more about depression. There is also something that I wrote on depression available at http://www.idexter.com