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by Paul Gilbert (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Robinson Publishing (30 Jan 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1854874349
  • ISBN-13: 978-1854874344
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 372,468 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is a guide to recovery from sadness, loss and depression. Serious depression can make the world a hostile place, full of frustration and disappointment. This book explains what is known about all kinds of depression, explores why the brain tends to shift to such negative styles of thinking when we are depressed, and shows how mind and body can interact to provoke this. The guide also provides step-by-step strategies for tackling depressed states of mind, and case histories to show how others have overcome their problems.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on depression I've come across, 20 Mar 2006
This review is from: Overcoming Depression : a Self-help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (Paperback)
This book helped to completely change my understanding of depression and psychology in general. The biological/evolutionary and social explanation Mr. Gilbert offers for depression is something I have encountered nowhere else, yet is so basic and elemental and makes complete sense. This book clarified and simplified what was for me a dark, scary, overwhelming mystery, and helped me to finally see depression for what it is. I understand now that I'm not randomly and unfortunately afflicted with a strange disease that I'm powerless to affect, but rather all people have the potential to enter a depressed state, and similarly all people, including me, have the potential to live in a state of vitality/normality (whatever the opposite of depression is). It's helped me to see what conditions provoke depression's onset - and importantly, why - and which help heal and restore oneself. What a stroke of luck to have come across this helpful book and this wonderful author.
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5.0 out of 5 stars mrsrochester, 29 Jun 2005
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I only wish I had read this book when I was twenty, when I was first told to expect to have recurrent episodes of severe depression for the rest of my life, rather than now, at fifty-five. Since my diagnosis I've been reading everything I can get my hands on, and trying everything. Lots of things have been helpful, some haven't, but this beats the lot. It's all here: why people can get depressed, in terms of the evolution of the species, the development of the individual and his or her situation; and, in very concrete practical and sensible terms, what you can do about it. It pulled together a lot of what I'd found out from other sources. Obviously, it's different strokes for different folks, but for me this was a real find.
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4.0 out of 5 stars My thoughts!, 7 Feb 2006
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I have found this book so helpfull - if only I had found out about it sooner. For the last few years I have had bouts of depression and refused to follow the traditional lines of treatment as I felt that this wasn't for me, but with the support of a cognative behavioural therapist and Paul Gilbert's book and some medication my life has been at it's best for the past 6 years, and at the age of 23 I feel i can now start to enjoy my life and cope with some of those day to day factors in life which used to make me feel like it was impossible to carry on, I have read and re-read this book and continually trying more of the skills and techniques. This book also makes you feel like your not alone, which initially was a huge factor for me, my partner has also read this book and it has enabled him to understand in a meaningfull way some of the difficulties I have had to face.
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