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"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 canat meet the expectations of society, the depression becomes worse and a vicious cycle begins. The goal of "Getting Things Done When Youare Depressed" is to break this cycle. Readers will learn: a How to prepare yourself mentally for working while depressed a How to structure your environment so you can work more easily a How to work with others a How to prevent depression
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Some great strategies, but don't use this book on its own,
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This review is from: Get it Done When You'RE Depressed (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).
3.0 out of 5 stars
didn't work well enough for me to even finish reading the book,
This review is from: Get it Done When You'RE Depressed (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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Get in Done When You're Depressed by Julie Fast,
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This review is from: Get it Done When You'RE Depressed (Paperback)
This is the best and most useful book on the subject of depression I've ever read. I would whole heartedly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a practical, assessible, easy to read and inspirational book on this illness.Its set out in small, manageable chapters in a uniform format so you dont have to read pages and pages of rambling essays. Also it contains not just the main author's experience but also that of other people who have experienced this condition. In addition, there is a very useful section in each chapter from a doctor (Dr Preston) who is able to comment and explain stuff from an objective medical viewpoint.
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