- ISBN13: 9780425166796
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Product Description
For some people, depression has been a part of their experience for so long that they've begun to believe it's what they are. They become experts at "doing" depression--hiding it, working around it, even achieving great things (but at the price of great struggle, and little satisfaction). In this book, psychotherapist Richard O'Conner shows us how to "undo" depression, by replacing depressive patterns of thinking, relating, and behaving with a new and more effective... More >>
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Has inaccurate information about medications. Says that lithium is a near miracle for bipolar disorder, when in fact it works for only 70% percent of people, for instance. (He even says this in another paragraph). Be forewarned. He says similar things about unipolar depression. It is a book about non-medical approaches to treatment, but I hope someone who knows little about drug treatment will take it accurate. It’s not just information about meds that came on the market after the publication date, too. Please don’t take it at face value.
Rating: 2 / 5
I only partially completed reading this book, I became a little concerned with the references and information and therefore had to put it down. On the other hand, this book is a easy read, with smooth flowing sentences.
I use a depressgenic style of thinking myself, and I have read well over 300 books from psychology texts to regular self help. I did find some interesting things in the book, but continued to be concerned over some of the references in the book i.e. Siegleman. There are other attributional therorists that have put forward better theories, but they remain unmentioned.
I was tring to find this person’s educational background in this book and I could not, usually this information is easy to find. The reference is to psychotherapist but unfortunately I believe anyone can meet this criteria.
I would recommend Yapko’s books on depression. I would not recommend the hypnosis as the evidence to support that hypnosis helps depression appears to be unfounded.
Rating: 1 / 5
1. It didn’t teach me anything I hadn’t already read in other books or learned on my own.
2. Stressed the importance of medication and ignored the plight of those (like me) who have tried pretty much every med on the market and experienced no relief from symptoms.
3. I was personally offended by the brief discussion of antidepressant side effects which, when mentioning sexual dysfunction, focused solely on MALE sexual dysfunction and completely ignored the fact that most females on antidepressants cease to experience orgasms. Apparently I’m a filthy whore who shouldn’t be concerned with my sexual enjoyment.
Rating: 1 / 5
Therapists don’t know what they’re doing and they’re not interested in really helping people. They just mentally torture you by making you relive bad memories. After you tell them your worst memories, they just say something like “thanks for telling me that” and they do nothing to help you. Reliving bad memories only keeps you depressed and angry, which is why therapists have you do it, so that you’ll keep coming back and they get payed. I CURED my depression by reading self help books and eating a highly nutritious diet. The answer is to stop thinking about past hurts and stop thinking negative thoughts and feeling negative emotions. This is the exact opposite of what the “therapists” have you do. Also good nutrition improves your brain chemistry and boosts your energy. I eat fruits & vegetables and take fish oil and some other supplements. I feel good & happy pretty much all the time now and it’s been that way for a long time now. I have my own successful business now and I have a very powerful drive to succeed and improve my life. I am permanently cured of depression and I know I will never be depressed again, because I know all about how to keep that from ever happening again. The books I recommend are “Six Pillars of Self Esteem” and “Psycho Cybernetics.” These are far better than any therapist. Also read some books on nutrition. And I also recommend reading some books on success advice, such as “Maximum Achievement” by Brian Tracy.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is a very helpful book with a unique approach, seeing things from a new angle. It should be read by everyone who suffers from depression. Along with this book I bought another book at Amazon on the subject of depression, and this other book has given me tremendous hope as it is inspirational in character, and it also has helped me so much to overcome and avoid depression and I highly recommend it for everybody suffering from depression–it’s called “I Love Me: Avoiding and Overcoming Depression” by Dietmar Scherf.
Rating: 5 / 5