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Understanding and Overcoming Depression
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Understanding and Overcoming Depression

A Common Sense Approach

Tony Bates
Crossing Press, 2001

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Recommendation

Depression is not about feeling bad. After all, everyone feels bad from time to time. True clinical depression happens when you feel bad all the time for a long time. This level of depression colors the way you think and feel about yourself and everything else in your life. And, one of the most devastating symptoms of depression is that you believe you will never get better. This short, easy-to-absorb book by Dr. Tony Bates gives an overview of depression, its causes and cures. He recommends a holistic approach to recovery through the use of medication and psychotherapy. Bates also outlines a simple plan including recognizing and challenging your negative thought patterns, reducing stress, keeping a journal and tackling small achievable tasks. Other books cover different aspects of this illness in much more depth, but even so, getAbstract recommends Bates’s guide as a useful introduction to the subject.

Take-Aways

  • Depression is deep mental anguish that undermines your health, saps your energy, and upsets your ability to eat and sleep.
  • Depression affects your thoughts, feelings and physical well-being.
  • Children, adolescents and the elderly can suffer from depression, although the majority of sufferers are women between the ages of 25 and 65.

About the Author

Dr. Tony Bates treats people with depression in his role as senior clinical psychologist at St. James’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.

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