The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
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If you’ve ever struggled with depression, take heart. Mindfulness, a simple yet powerful way of paying attention to your most difficult emotions and life experiences, can help you break the cycle of chronic unhappiness once and for all.
In The Mindful Way through Depression, four uniquely qualified experts explain why our usual attempts to “think” our way out of a bad mood or just “snap out of it” lead us deeper into the downward spiral. Through insightful lessons dra
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Is it Weird in Here or is it Just Me? A Real-time and First-hand Account of Depression for Families, Friends and Carers
‘Is it weird in here or is it just me?’ is a book will give you more of an insight into depression than any other you’ll ever read on the illness. If you are caring for someone with depression or you’re a parent and would like to arm yourself with accurate knowledge of its symptoms, then this book lets you experience the illness from a remarkably honest perspective. For some reason (perhaps known only to God), the author was given an opportunity to write extensively about his depression whil
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If you ever get depressed or get caught up in negative thinking, , you need to read this!,
This is truly an excellent method of working to accept and overcome the problems of depression.
I have read some of the classic books on depression and cognitive therapy such as David Burns’ “Feeling Good”, and this is a much more comprehensive approach, based on the principles of cognitive therapy but with the addition of mindfulness.
This approach is also good for people who aren’t really clinically depressed but who get caught up in negative thinking patterns and low self esteem: “Why me?” “I’m a loser”, “I’ll never get ahead”, etc…
The book has a great cd with it to teach you exactly how to practice the mindfulness exercises. I hesitate to use the term meditation because people tend to start thinking things like “I can’t meditate”, “It’s too hard”, etc… By the time you read the book, you will understand that meditation is not hard at all, it’s just a matter of doing it, and it can be done in as little as 3-5 minutes and still be worthwhile. It’s not a matter of “contemplating your navel” but rather just learning to BE in the present moment, to watch one’s thoughts arise and fall away, to slow down, to look at what is happening in one’s body and in one’s mind. Nothing at all difficult about it. You can do it. And you will find it worthwhile if you do it for a few weeks.
I highly recommend this book to people suffering from depression.
Another very good book for certain types of depression and anxiety that I highly recommend is “Emotional Blackmail” by Susan Forward, which helped me a great deal.
One more book I will recommend not so much specifically for depression but because it teaches the value and technique of “mindfulness”, is Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Wherever You Go, There You Are”.
The last thing I will say is that just reading any of these books is not enough! You MUST do the exercises and put mindfulness into practice! You will be glad you did!
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|The Mindful Way through Depression,
I highly recommend this book. I have suffered from depressed for a long time, and I am always looking for new ways to cope with my depression. I found this book to be most helpful in describing useful techniques to deal with my depression. The book is written in very layman language and is easily understandable. To my knowledge the four professionals who wrote this book collaborated their ideas, and came up with a scheme that was relatively easy to follow. I take anti-depressant medications that enable me to get up to “base line”, but after that, if I do not have some way of facing every day problems, I find myself in the dump of depression again.
This book helps me to stay up, and not slip back too far into depression. Medications are very helpful, but by themselves, they can not keep one at base line (or what some people call “normal.”) Once we reach base line, we depressed persons, need help in staying at that level. The teachings of this book definitely has helped me in this endeavor.
I do not say this book totally cured me of depression (I don’t think anything ever will.) However, the information in the book has been a big help to me, and I can cope with depression much better than I did before I read the book.
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|Groundbreaking approach,
This is a ground-breaking method in the treatment of depression by combining C.B.T. with Buddhist mindfulness practice. The descriptions and exercises for meditating have helped me to overcome my resistance(s) to practice. I also have discovered “moving meditation” that can be done with walking, swimming, whatever to reach a result that is even more enlightening than classic sitting meditation practice.
I also realize from my past deep depressions that any practice seems hard because it is extremely difficult to overcome “inertia” and cut through the cognitive “fog” symptoms that accompany the disease. Hopefully, the moving meditation practice and some simple cognitive practices described here could be effective even under the duress of a full blown relapse.
This book is also very well written and clearly readable.
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|A DEFINITE must-buy,
This is the first time I’ve ever written a review for a book, let alone give it top marks, so that’ll give you an indication of what I thought about this book called Is It Weird in Here or is it Just Me.
I must have read hundreds of books on depression in an effort to try and help my son who’s now in his early twenties and help me understand what’s going on with him. This is the FIRST (believe me, it’s true) book that has made such a big impact upon me and my relationship with my son, and it sounds corny I know, but it’s also the first one where I’ve laughed, cried and learned so much all in one hit.
The author said that his book is unlike any other book on depression and he’s right. The perspective of one who is writing the book while he’s suffering and hospitalised is just extraordinary. And knowing what my son has been through, I don’t know how the author wrote it, but I’m extremely glad he did. When you read the book, it’ll be almost like you know him, that’s how personal it gets – but that’s a good thing. In fact, I think it’s necessary.
This should be compulsory reading for anyone who’s caring for someone with depression or a mood disorder. I’m not sure whether the author is marketing this book elsewhere, but if he isn’t he most definitely should be, because everyone should read it, not just those of us lucky enough to have a Kindle or other ebook reader.
I just can’t get over this book – it’s made such an impact on me… Trust me, if you’re caring for someone with depression, this is the book you need to read. I stumbled across it, bought it `just in case’ it was good, and it was brilliant. To the author, my son and I thank you.
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|This book describes what depression is *really* like!!,
I can’t express how much I want you to read this book. Rod has written down what is truly going on in the mind of a depressed person, and what is most remarkable is that he wrote it while he was himself in the middle of a *deep* clinical depression, He describes what depressed persons think about (it’s really all they do), what their suffering is really like, as they experience their worst days.
He also describes their good days, and at least one or two things that can help a depressed person have one. My personal favorite is the observation (and I am paraphrasing an entire chapter here) that “affirmations don’t generally work for a depressive, but having a depressed person recollect previous good moments in their life, when they had done something of value to themselves, can be a transformative experience for them”
I am very grateful to Rod for writing this book. I hope everyone who suffers depression and all of their friends, family, and medical professionals get to read this book. It will truly, truly, truly help them battle this terrible thing that is depression.
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|This is a MUST read,
Like the two reviewers before me, I found this book to be excellent and certainly one of the best I’ve read on depression. The author’s narrative is quite engaging and disarmingly entertaining which, given what he’s going through and the nature of the struggle, makes his message even more memorable and powerful. This is definitely NOT a book for those who are in the depths of depression to read – its clearly a book meant for carers and others who wish to know what its like to have depression and too understand and it does what it sets out to do very well. Even though my wife has gone through a couple of bad episodes while we’ve been married, I still learnt something by reading this book – even though I think I’ve become an expert over the years, having read so many books on the subject. The author wrote at the start of the book that every person who knows someone with depression should read this book. My thought then was that this might be overstating its importance, however I must say after reading it all, I actually agree with the author. Its well and truly a must read in my opinion. Stay strong everyone.
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