Author: Sue Atkinson
Publisher: Lion Books
ISBN: 0745951813
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Presents practical advice and activities to help readers overcome depression.

Author: Sue Atkinson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101015578
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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A warm, simple, and practical guide to real and immediate help for those lost in the darkness of depression?written by someone who has experienced it and found a way out. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than 17 million Americans suffer from depression. For many of these millions, climbing back out of the pit of gloom seems almost impossible. Depression often leaves its victims feeling paralyzed, numb, and alone. Climbing Out of Depression is a guide for everyone who is looking for practical help. Unlike clinical books that approach depression from a theoretical, academic viewpoint, what makes this book distinctive is the fact that the author herself has suffered from depression for many years. Atkinson does not write as an expert, or as a depression counselor, but as someone who knows the feelings from close personal experience. Climbing Out of Depression is a handbook to offer immediate help for the mind, the body, and?with the author?s gentle spiritual touch?also the soul. Topics covered in Climbing Out of Depression include the causes of depression; how to take action when life becomes too difficult; dealing with negativity; overcoming fear, worry, and panic; understanding anger; coping with loss; and much more. Climbing Out of Depression is a tried-and-true tested book that incorporates strategies, tips, and success stories, many of the author herself. Written in easily grasped sections designed to be read for the limited concentration spans that often accompany depression, Atkinson leads the reader through the ?why? of depression and then offers ?how-to? suggestions based on firsthand proven techniques. Reading this book is similar to having a conversation with a compassionate friend, one who has ?been there? and knows what to say and how to help.

Author: Sue Atkinson
Publisher: Lion Books
ISBN: 0745958192
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Being depressed often leaves you feeling paralysed into inaction. Climbing back out of the pit of gloom seems almost impossible. You need help, and that is what this book offers - practical, humane and spiritual help. Sue Atkinson has suffered years of depression herself. She does not write as an expert on depression or as a depression counsellor, but as someone who knows the feelings from close personal experience. As a result, her book contains a varied menu of hints, quotations and illustrations, not page after page of unbroken text. This is a book to dip into as fits your mood and need, making a dependable guide to the climb.

Author: Dick Sederquist
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781482511628
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Hiking Out” is a metaphor about traveling through life, living with and climbing out of depression. It's about hiking the external, but also the internal terrain. It's a memoir of inspirational non fiction short stories and essays about the author's life, his adventures, his earlier desperation and despair, and his life saving humor and positive sustaining philosophy. In the prologue of the book, the Grand Canyon is compared to an inverted mountain, a valley of depression. Hiking in is easy; the hard work is getting out. The book celebrates the joy and humor found in life from feeling better after the long climb back into the light. It's about the good people who inspired the author and helped him along the way.

Author: Matt Samet
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250022363
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Death Grip chronicles a top climber's near-fatal struggle with anxiety and depression, and his nightmarish journey through the dangerous world of prescription drugs. Matt Samet lived to climb, and craved the challenge, risk, and exhilaration of conquering sheer rock faces around the United States and internationally. But Samet's depression, compounded by the extreme diet and fitness practices of climbers, led him to seek professional help. He entered the murky, inescapable world of psychiatric medicine, where he developed a dangerous addiction to prescribed medications—primarily "benzos," or benzodiazepines—that landed him in institutions and nearly killed him. With dramatic storytelling, persuasive research data, and searing honesty, Matt Samet reveals the hidden epidemic of benzo addiction, which some have suggested can be harder to quit than heroin. Millions of adults and teenagers are prescribed these drugs, but few understand how addictive they are—and how dangerous long-term usage can be, even when prescribed by doctors. After a difficult struggle with addiction, Samet slowly makes his way to a life in recovery through perseverance and a deep love of rock climbing. Conveying both the exhilaration of climbing in the wilderness and the utter madness of addiction, Death Grip is a powerful and revelatory memoir.

Author: Dennis R. Jones
Publisher: Charisma Media
ISBN: 1616384557
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Through his entrepreneurial experiences, Dennis Jones shares the principles he learned along the way that can be applied in a reader's personal life, business or ministry. He provides an inside look at the ups and downs of success and reveals how his faith in God is a stabilizing force. Climbing Out of Adversity teaches readers how to start and grow a business, and manage aspects of their personal and professional lives in ways that will lead to success. Through his frank, vivid storytelling, the author passes on a treasury of godly wisdom that will challenge and inspire men and women to be courageous, honorable and to always seek the truth.

Author: Dr. Gregory L. Jantz
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307552780
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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You Can Hope Again You may feel as if you will never find a way out of the darkness of depression. Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D. believes that because people’s paths into depression are uniquely their own, their paths out of depression will be unique as well. In Moving Beyond Depression, he takes an insightful and honest look at the emotional, environmental, relational, physical, and spiritual causes of this disease. Here you will find practical help that will lead you to true freedom.

Author: Michael Yapko
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416592679
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Depression is the world’s most common mood disorder, and it is spreading like a viral contagion. You can’t catch depression in the same way you catch a cold, but the latest research provides overwhelming support that moods spread through social conditions, defining depression as more a social problem than a medical illness. Our social lives directly shape our brain chemistry and powerfully affect the way we think and feel—and our brains can change for the better with healthy social circumstances as much as they can change with medication. Drugs may address some of depression’s symptoms, but Dr. Yapko convincingly argues that we need to treat depression at its root, by building social skills and improving relationships, in order to halt the spread of this debilitating disorder. Filled with practical exercises and illustrative examples, his groundbreaking plan guides readers to identify key social patterns that reinforce depression so they can learn the skills to overcome depression and even prevent new episodes from occurring. Provocative and controversial as well as prescriptive and hopeful, Depression Is Contagious investigates the social phenomenon of depression’s epidemic-like spread while offering a more realistic road to recovery.

Author: Randy J. Paterson
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Based on the premise that depression is not an isolated disorder but a cluster of related disorders, this workbook asks readers to look at the multiple causes and symptoms of their depression and the myths that may hinder healing. Illustrations, charts & graphs.

Author: Lynn Gardner
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781796313086
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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What IF climbing out of the "dark place" was as simple as taking it ONE STEP AT A TIME?