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Author: Elisha Goldstein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-12-06
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 145169055X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoldstein 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 --
Author: Erick Messias
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019-10
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781527537132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPsychiatry 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.
Author: Rachel Hershenberg
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Published: 2017-12-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1626259453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’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.
Author: Daphne Merkin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2017-02-07
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0374711917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A cleareyed, insightful account of how she felt during her nosedives into despair . . . shot through with a self-awareness that helps readers cheer her on.”—The New York Times A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of the Year “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. 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 portrays the lifelong arc of her affliction, beginning in a childhood largely bereft of love and stretching into the present, where she 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 is still often stigmatized and shrouded in misunderstanding. “[A] mesmerizing memoir.” —Booklist (starred review) “Brings a stunningly perceptive voice to the forefront of the conversation about depression, one that is both reassuring and revelatory.” —Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice
Author: Seth Swirsky
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2017-04-04
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 1492648140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSay 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!
Author: Mark Sutton
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0805421580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSutton 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.
Author: Tom G. Stevens PhD
Publisher: You Can Choose To Be Happy
Published: 2010-04-05
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0965337723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Stevens' research identifies specific learnable beliefs and skills--not general, inherited traits--that cause people to be happy and successful.
Author: Elisha Goldstein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-02-21
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1451623860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Goldstein takes the mindfulness approach of helping people to connect to the present moment one step further by offering practical techniques to make deep, permanent life changes and alleviate stress, ease pain, and cultivate emotional freedom.
Author: Todd Patkin
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780965826198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Alastair Campbell
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-01-12
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 1448134986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre 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.
