Download or read book 21 Ways to a Happier Depression written by Seth Swirsky and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Say goodbye to dreary shades of black and white and start seeing the world for the prism of color it is with this refreshing and creative guide! In a unique combination of art, activities, and uplifting anecdotes, 21 Ways to a Happier Depression leads you on a hands-on journey to personal growth. Getting you out of one of "those moods" can be as simple as: • Making the bed • Nurturing a plant • Painting shapes in loops and colors • Breaking down your work into a to-do list • Getting a fresh new look with some different décor, or even a haircut! Inspired by his own life experience, Clinical Psychologist Seth Swirsky gently encourages positive introspection through honest and practical advice. With this book, a happier depression is literally in your hands!
Download or read book Uncovering Happiness written by Elisha Goldstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldstein believes that overcoming depression and uncovering happiness is in harnessing our brain's own natural antidepressant power and ultimately creating a more resilient antidepressant brain. In seven simple steps, she shows you how to take back control of your mind, your mood, and your life --
Download or read book Finding Happiness written by Todd Patkin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the painful emotions that often lie just beneath the surface of a "perfect life". From a childhood riddled with insecurity, to an adulthood marked by the drive to always achieve 'more', and a breakdown at the age of 36, Patkin chronicles his own difficulties and ultimately successful journey towards happiness.
Download or read book How Come They re Happy and I m Not written by Peter Bongiorno and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proven, science-based, holistic approach to beating depression and feeling good—without medication—from the author of Put Anxiety Behind You. For many people who suffer from depression and anxiety, prescription drugs have either not been effective or have produced intolerable side effects. Now, naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc, offers a drug-free approach for healing depression in How Come They’re Happy and I’m Not. Bongiorno explains that depression and chronic low moods often have roots in physical ailments: inflammation, digestive problems, poor nutrient absorption, or disease. Depression can also be brought on by spiritual concerns, life events, or simply insufficient resources in dealing with day-to-day stress. Bongiorno’s integrative, natural approach to psychology and healing, which he has used successfully with his own patients, features a personalized approach that includes: Working with your doctor to identify underlying causes of depression with blood tests and dietary changesBotanical medicines, yoga, massage, and acupuncture pointsA treatment plan based on your particular symptoms and circumstances
Download or read book Activating Happiness written by Rachel Hershenberg and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s not just big choices that can radically change our lives—sometimes it’s the small ones. Activating Happiness offers powerful, evidence-based strategies to help you conquer low motivation, nix negative moods, and defeat depression by actively making positive choices in small, everyday moments. If you have depression or just suffer from low mood and lack of motivation, you know that your life isn’t going to change with one grand, sweeping gesture. But you can make important decisions every day—whether it’s getting off the couch and going for a walk, signing up for a course in pottery or screenwriting, or just setting aside some time to meet and chat with a good friend over coffee. These little things won’t change your life all at once. But over time, they will shape the way you live and see the world and keep you on a path to wellness. In Activating Happiness, you’ll find solid strategies based in behavioral activation and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you break the cycle of avoidance, guilt, shame, and hopelessness that can take hold when you’re feeling your lowest. Using this guide, you’ll find little, doable ways to “show up” to your life, get the ball rolling, and start really feeling better, instead of just reassuring others. You’ll learn to set healthy goals for your body like eating and sleeping well, as well as healthy goals for your mind. Most importantly, you’ll discover how to view your life through the lens of your own deepest values, which will spark a commitment to real, lasting change. The best thing about change is that you can start anywhere. By building a life—moment by moment—of rewarding behaviors that correspond to your values, you have the recipe for getting and staying well at your fingertips. This book will guide your way.
Download or read book This Close to Happy written by Daphne Merkin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016 “Despair is always described as dull,” writes Daphne Merkin, “when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.” This Close to Happy—Merkin’s rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression—captures this strange light. Daphne Merkin has been hospitalized three times: first, in grade school, for childhood depression; years later, after her daughter was born, for severe postpartum depression; and later still, after her mother died, for obsessive suicidal thinking. Recounting this series of hospitalizations, as well as her visits to myriad therapists and psychopharmacologists, Merkin fearlessly offers what the child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz calls “the inside view of navigating a chronic psychiatric illness to a realistic outcome.” The arc of Merkin’s affliction is lifelong, beginning in a childhood largely bereft of love and stretching into the present, where Merkin lives a high-functioning life and her depression is manageable, if not “cured.” “The opposite of depression,” she writes with characteristic insight, “is not a state of unimaginable happiness . . . but a state of relative all-right-ness.” In this dark yet vital memoir, Merkin describes not only the harrowing sorrow that she has known all her life, but also her early, redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a writer. Written with an acute understanding of the ways in which her condition has evolved as well as affected those around her, This Close to Happy is an utterly candid coming-to-terms with an illness that many share but few talk about, one that remains shrouded in stigma. In the words of the distinguished psychologist Carol Gilligan, “It brings a stunningly perceptive voice into the forefront of the conversation about depression, one that is both reassuring and revelatory.”
Download or read book Winning the Fight to be Happy written by Tom McKinley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proven tactics for achieving happiness and peace of mind – from someone who has fought for them and won. Life doesn’t make it easy for us to find happiness. Day after day, we are presented with a full spectrum of challenges, as well as anxiety, depression, and overall negativity. Before we know it, we fall into a tunnel, where we forget how to be positive and cannot see how to change and improve our lives. The good news, as the author of this book learned personally, is that we can fight against these challenges. Winning the Fight to be Happy teaches you strategies on how to overcome the forces that bring you down, and how to become a person through whom happiness flows freely. Each chapter discusses a different way to improve your life, on a constant course towards peace of mind and a positive perspective. Here are the tactics that will empower you to win the fight for being a happier person. A better life is something you deserve, and a happier life is something you can achieve. It all starts today, with You.
Download or read book 14 Steps to Happiness A Program for Overcoming Depression written by Kristian Hall and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14 Steps to Happiness is a program that will help you recover from depression. You will learn how different activities can lift your mood - and how you can change your mindset - in order to feel joy again and experience mastery and meaning.When depression is at its worst, it may seem impossible to get rid of. This book, and the author's story, will show you that it's possible to recover completely. By following the 14 steps, you can aspire to happiness! The book also provides inspiration and information to friends and relatives of those suffering from depression.About 14 Steps to Happiness: "This book is written with care and so much love that I really trust the author has a genuine desire for me to get better. The advice and tips are so simple that it feels easy to get started on the journey to "Get Happy Again". I recommend this book from the bottom of my heart."Hanne Charlotte Gryting"The book provides an insightful understanding of the nature of depression, and it contains a unique collection of practical tools."May Volden, Psychologist and Hege Saltnes, PsychiatristAbout Rise from Darkness: "I cannot explain how much I appreciate this book. Kristian writes simply, with empathy, extremely well, and last but not least, in a way that is easy to understand. He explains accurately and yet easily, and the reader gets an insight into how the brain, mindset, reality filters, and many other of our mental aspects work."Elise Solvåg, elisecathrin.com"A brilliant book - full of insights and inspiration. Kristian Hall shows the way." Pål Johan Karlsen, PhD in Psychology.
Download or read book Conquering Depression written by Mark Sutton and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sutton and Hennigan take an approach to overcoming life's difficulties that is grounded in both spiritual and medical principles. "Conquering Depression" provides step-by-step encouragement and instruction to manage and win over depression. The 30 chapters, called "Days", are divided into four sections: The Power to Win, Strength for Today, Tools for Tomorrow, and a summary. Each chapter covers an aspect of depression from the spiritual, emotional and physical angles.
Download or read book Your Happiness Toolkit written by Carrie M Wrigley and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for powerful, practical strategies to help yourself or someone else struggling with depression? This comprehensive guidebook provides resources, insights, and techniques you can use - starting today - to help yourself, or someone you care about. It is a strategy manual - not just to HEAL depression, but to PREVENT it in the first place.
Download or read book You Can Choose to be Happy written by Tom G. Stevens PhD and published by You Can Choose To Be Happy. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Stevens' research identifies specific learnable beliefs and skills--not general, inherited traits--that cause people to be happy and successful.
Download or read book The Now Effect written by Elisha Goldstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alleviate stress, ease pain, cultivate emotional freedom, create a healthier brain, and find enlightenment with cutting-edge mindfulness techniques from The Now Effect. You can calm your anxious mind, have greater focus at work and home, feel more empathy toward yourself and others, approach difficulties with more grace and less stress, and be aware of what is most important to you. The secret is in the spaces. A leader in mindfulness psychology, Dr. Elisha Goldstein demonstrates how to use the space between stimulus and response to break free from habitual beliefs and thoughts that don’t serve you. Offering practical techniques to make deep, permanent life changes, Dr. Goldstein’s techniques will allow you to connect to the present moment to make deep, permanent life changes and to connect with the good in life and with what really matters. In essence, this book teaches the foundation for how the now—this very moment—can change the rest of your life. To enhance and ease the reader experience, the text contains Microsoft tags of Dr. Goldstein demonstrating his exercises, and the ebook includes embedded videos.
Download or read book Defeating Depression written by Leo J. Battenhausen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a self-help guide to identifying, undestanding, and coping with conflicts and issues in one's life that lead to feelings of loneliness, despair, and sadness to find a way to take control of one's life.
Download or read book Happiness Is A Choice written by Frank Minirth and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Depression to Happiness written by Erick Messias and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry has developed a number of tools to help manage symptoms of mental disorders, broadly categorized as psychotherapy, or â oetalk therapyâ , and psychopharmacology, or â oemedicationsâ . One question left open in this regard, though, is what to do after those symptoms are controlled? How can those with depression be helped to build a better life after the remission of symptoms? Weaving together Positive Psychology and Aristotelian philosophy, this book details an approach to creating a path towards a flourishing life. Building on the two translations of the Greek term â oeAreteâ , virtue and excellence, it links Aristotleâ (TM)s ideas to those of Martin Seligman, the founder of Positive Psychology, and Howard Gardner, a proponent of the Multiple Intelligences Theory.
Download or read book The Happy Depressive In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness written by Alastair Campbell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you happy? Does it matter? Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means to him. Taking in economic and political theories, he questions how happiness can survive in a grossly negative media culture, and how it could inform social policy. But happiness is also deeply personal. Campbell, who suffers from depression, looks in the mirror and finds a bittersweet reflection, a life divided between the bad and not-so-bad days, where the highest achievements in his professional life could leave him numb, and he can somehow look back on a catastrophic breakdown twenty-five years ago as the best thing that happened to him. He writes too of what he has learned from the recent death of his best friend, further informing his view that the pursuit of happiness is a long game. Originally published as part of the Brain Shots series, the pre-eminent source for high-quality, short-form digital non-fiction.
Download or read book Undoing Depression written by Richard O'Connor and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling approachable guide that has inspired thousands of readers to manage or overcome depression — fully revised and updated for life in the 21st century. Depression rates around the world have skyrocketed in the 20‑plus years since Richard O'Connor first published his classic book on living with and overcoming depression. Nearly 40 million American adults suffer from the condition, which affects nearly every aspect of life, from relationships, to job performance, physical health, productivity, and, of course, overall happiness. And in an increasingly stressful and overwhelming world, it's more important than ever to understand the causes and effects of depression, and what we can do to overcome it. In this fully revised and updated edition — which includes updated information on the power of mindfulness, the relationship between depression and other diseases, the risks and side effects of medication, depression’s effect on thinking, and the benefits of exercise — Dr. O'Connor explains that, like heart disease and other physical conditions, depression is fueled by complex and interrelated factors: genetic, biochemical, environmental. But Dr. O'Connor focuses on an additional factor that is often overlooked: our own habits. Unwittingly we get good at depression. We learn how to hide it, and how to work around it. We may even achieve great things, but with constant struggle rather than satisfaction. Relying on these methods to make it through each day, we deprive ourselves of true recovery, of deep joy and healthy emotion. Undoing Depression teaches us how to replace depressive patterns with a new and more effective set of skills. We already know how to "do" depression—and we can learn how to undo it. With a truly holistic approach that synthesizes the best of the many schools of thought about this painful disease, and a critical eye toward medications, O'Connor offers new hope—and new life—for sufferers of depression.
