An important contribution to understanding how to dismantle the internal processes that sufferers of depression unwittingly maintain. Useful for sufferers themselves and those around them.
The author’s own web site www.undoingdepression.com covers a few other publications that I don’t have a view on but the is an Amazon link if you want or need this book.
Extract for the site:
“ This book presents a “program” for depression. AA people know that not drinking is not enough; they have to “live the program.” Like alcoholism, depression is a lifelong condition that can only be cured by a deliberate effort to change our selves. Later chapters explain how in five key elements of our personality–feelings, thoughts, behavior, relationships, and the self–depression has taught us certain skills which have come to feel natural, a part of who we are. But in fact we have to unlearn those skills and replace them with new habits–which are explained in detail–for real recovery to take place. Practicing the exercises described later can be a way for people with depression to “live the program”–and live a vital, rich existence again. “
Some books just make sense.
