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Get It Done When You're Depressed [Kindle Edition]

Julie A. Fast (Author), Psy.D., ABPP, John D. Preston (Author)

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Length: 270 pages
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Product Description

Shake the blues away.

Everyone knows that depression can lead to guilt, sadness, frustration, and in the case of 15-20% of people with depression, suicide. Because we live in a culture that rewards (and often worships) productivity, when a depressed person can’t meet the expectations of society, the depression becomes worse and a vicious cycle begins. The goal of Getting Things Done When You’re Depressed is to break this cycle. Readers will learn:
* How to prepare yourself mentally for working while depressed
* How to structure your environment so you can work more easily
* How to work with others
* How to prevent depression

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 1203 KB
Print Length: 288 pages
Publisher: Alpha (2 Jan 2008)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B0010SKU6K
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #123,242 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #30 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Psychology & Counselling > Physiological Aspects

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful

Some great strategies, but don't use this book on its own 23 April 2008

By MB VINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

This book does exactly what it says on the tin. It shows you how to keep functioning as normal, despite the fact that you're depressed. It's not a guide to recovering or overcoming depression, and I think it's really important to remember that.

There are some great strategies in here for getting things done. I've used most of them at one time or another and I know that they work... in the short term. What concerns me is that there is little in here about prioritising, knowing your limits or finding a balance. The author asserts that people who are depressed can function just as well as when they're not depressed; they just don't believe they can. That was not my experience at all.

I suffered from severe depression which was triggered by stress from pushing myself too hard. It took me a long time to accept that I *was* ill and couldn't get back to normal by just trying a little bit harder! Pushing myself to get things done only triggered a vicious circle where I became more and more depressed. I needed to learn to accept the limitations of my illness, prioritise what had to be done and take time out to rest in order to recover.

The author herself states in the introduction that she continues to suffer from chronic depression, and I can't help wondering if it's the very strategies in this book that are keeping her from recovery. Getting things done can boost your mood, your confidence and your self-esteem and it's rightly a part of many CBT programmes for depression - but in my experience it only works in moderation.

If you use the ideas in this book, try to find a balance and make sure you read some books on overcoming depression as well. Two particularly good ones are Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing the Way You Think (for depression in general) and Depressive illness-curse of the strong (for stress-related depression).

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

A great insight into how function when depressed 18 Mar 2012

By EC2012

Format:Paperback

I suffer from depression and had hit one of my slumps when I found this book. It is full of great tips for just getting on with it and telling your depression that you are going to get up, go to work and function like everyone else. I found the advice to "depersonalise" the depression very helpful. In other words, depression is not me and I can get on with life, even if not feeling like it. At the core of the book is the thought, "don't wait to feel better to do something" - because when depressed, that feeling will not come. Being active and setting small achievable goals, having a structure, talking back to the depression - all very much common sense and easy to do.
I would advise anyone suffering from this illness to buy this book! It's working for me. It's even spurred me into action to write a review, something I would never have contemplated before - take heart, you are not alone and it does get better. Thinking of all fellow depression sufferers and take action!

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didn't work well enough for me to even finish reading the book 8 Mar 2011

By zendikar

Format:Paperback

I had been in a slump and was not doing much of anything other than working and cleaning. I could make myself go to work in the morning, I could make myself clean to a minimally acceptable level, but anything else left me sitting on the couch wondering why I should bother. Finally I got sick of wasting time and started looking for help and ended up with this book.

I really liked this book when I began reading it. It did motivate me the first couple days; I started doing things again. I felt a lot better. But as I continued to read the book, it stopped saying much of anything new. And the author's countless, whiny, poor-me personal anecdotes were very distracting, very off-putting and very unnecessary. It started to feel like she was using the book as a platform to simply talk about herself at length to an audience who would not have bought a book called "Julie Talks All About Herself and Her Repetitive and Uninteresting Depression." I know this sounds insensitive and I do sympathize with the author as obviously I've also suffered from depression, but this book just isn't done as well as it could have been.

I made it about 75% through the book and then one day I put it down and never bothered to pick it back up again. Again, the material was repetitive and a lot of it was irrelevant. I've rated this 3 stars rather than 1 or 2 because it did actually help me at first, though I haven't kept those habits consistently.

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