It is -very- flattering to its intended audience, and provides workable, gentle, helpful, possibly-life-saving advice and insight. They will never be the answer and they don't work as simply as 'correcting a serotonin chemical imbalance'. If there is someone struggling with being diagnosed with depression for the first time, feeling guilty or like there’s a stigma to taking medication, I would recommend this book. Before reading this book, I’d tried many CBT-based self-help books with practical exercises to complete.

Depressive Illness and Work - Didlaw

And if you are dealing with depressive illness in your own life, or in the lives of anyone who is a part of your life, this book could be invaluable. This was very true of me but in the mire of negative thoughts that’s part and parcel of depression, I hadn’t been able to see it until someone else pointed it out. Most considered depression as a product of the mind, by which medications and brain structures had no part. Kniha je síce venovaná predovšetkým verejnosti ako takej a nie priamo odborníkom, no musím povedať, že je spracovaná na dobrej a odbornej úrovni.

The book contained a lot of helpful life-advice relevant to people with depression, their relatives, or just the population more generally. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. It is a quick read, which is especially good for those of us who might be having a tough time mustering energy to do much of anything.

Depressive Illness: The Curse Of The Strong: The Curse of the

The sense I took away from this book overall was empowerment, something I had never felt before as a depressed person.Depression is given such a profound light, that the very people who suffer from it can finally see it for what it is and accept the help that they've been denying themselves for so long. While the haze of macroeconomic data is exceptionally contradictory, the current reality is that highly profitable firms are employing a record number of workers and paying them rising wages. Yes, mental illness IS physical, but (in my opinion) you can get better without the use of (potentially dangerous) synthetic drugs. I found this intensely relatable, which helps with the feelings of isolation that often come along with depression. Quite short, and at times a little simplistic, but a valuable book nevertheless which I shall certainly dip into many more times, just as I already read some sections several times along the way.

Depressive Illness Curse of the Strong - MSW

I read this book during a severe episode of clinical depression and was able to do so, by using the chapters to do little and often. Recommend this for anyone suffering from (or having a loved one who's suffering from)depressive illness. Knihu doplňuje aj viacero obrázkov/grafov/tabuliek, ktoré sú vizuálne často jednoducho prehľadné a vždy vysvetlené.He worked as a consultant psychiatrist with the Priory Group of Hospitals from 1993 until his retirement from clinical practice in 2015.