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Overcoming Depression | 
 enlarge | Author: Paul Gilbert
Publisher: Robinson Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 581
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.3
ISBN: 1841191256
Dewey Decimal Number: 153
EAN: 9781841191256
ASIN: 1841191256
Publication Date: May 25, 2000
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 mrsrochester June 29, 2005
88 out of 88 found this review helpful
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.
The best book on depression I've come across March 20, 2006
53 out of 53 found this review helpful
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.
This book helped me understand and overcome my depression. December 19, 1999
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book which offers useful and practical advice about overcoming depression and other problems which are related to it, in a rational way. It is well written and readable, covering all aspects of the subject comprehensively. It is illustrated throughout with examples drawn from the author's own experience as a therapist. The book is in three sections - the first explains the causes of depression, the second discusses a self-help programme for depression itself while the third and final section considers related issues such as shame, anger, approval and perfectionism. As a sufferer from depression, this book was of immense help to me - having studied the book, I now understand a lot of the problems I have much better and feel able to overcome them. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone who is even mildly depressed.
The CBT Bible October 19, 2006
G R Andrews (UK)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
I used this book in conjunction with a Psychologist and found it to be the truest and most practical book on dealing with depression. It is in no way airy fairy or spiritual (I have no problem with spirituality BTW) it is practical advise on how to deal with your own issues and behaviour using CBT techniques.
I strongly recommend you use this book with a counsellor or therapist. As one other reader commented it can be a little overwhelming because it is so jam-packed with advice. If you are using it alone take it very slowly, read only a few pages a night max and take it from there.
Thank-you
G.
It really does help... March 11, 2007
M. Williams (Middlesbrough, United Kingdom)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
Having lived what I always considered to be a rather charmed life, last year I was hit with a depression that lasted for 8 months. I felt as though my whole capacity for enjoying life had been ripped out of me and saw no way of getting my old self back.
My wife bought me this book and it helped me to make sense of what I was going through. However, having tried the techniques I soon gave up as I didn't believe the positive reframing comments that I was making and did not believe that such a method could solve what I considered to be largely external problems. I have to say, I saw no hope for the future at this point.
Luckily for me I found a Chartered Psychologist who, although expensive, helped me to climb out of my depression using the CBT techniques described in the book. The regular appointments meant that I had a motivation to do the exercises even when I thought they wouldn't work, as I needed to be able to discuss them at my next session. It turned out to be the best money I have ever spent.
I am now loving life and it's thanks to CBT. I was off work for a period of 5 months and thought I would never be able to go back to what had always been a career I loved. Now I have returned and feel better than ever. And I never believed it could be possible.
I thoroughly recommend this book and would suggest using it with a CBT practitioner. It gave me my life back.
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