Overcoming Depression: A self- help guide using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques

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The book begins with a "CBT Starter Guide," which is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn more about this approach. From there, Gillihan works through a variety of behavior strategies, such as goal setting, mindfulness, avoiding procrastination, and managing anger. Each chapter ends with a helpful summary, as well as homework assignments to reinforce what you've learned. We love the helpful diagrams, charts, and activities throughout the book. A lot of the confusion surrounding depression is about not knowing what to do about it. This book is exactly what the title suggests: a toolkit of options for various situations and feelings that arise. With techniques included for people in drug and alcohol recovery, this book focuses on drug-free methods to decrease feelings of despair and even panic when unexpected problems are presented and works to develop skills to help prevent feelings of depression in the future. Also, reading books about depression—even if you’ve personally never felt depressed—can help you empathize with others who do experience depression. This can strengthen your relationships with those you care about and help you understand what depression is from a more nuanced point of view. Authored by leading psychologists including David Barlow, Michelle Craske and Edna Foa, Treatments That Work® is a series of manuals and workbooks based on the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Each pair of books – therapist guide and client workbook –contains step-by-step procedures for delivering evidence-based psychological interventions and will help you to provide the best possible care for your clients. Best for those in helping professions: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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Written by a practicing psychotherapist, Undoing Depression by Richard O’Connor is straightforward, practical, and easy to follow and understand. As those with depression know well, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the things in life over which we have no control. But O’Connor suggests battling depression by focusing on the things over which we do have control: our habits. Throughout the book, O’Connor offers tips and techniques for readers to learn to change their habits to replace depression with positive mental health. The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time Alex Korb, Ph.D. In this hilarious memoir, comedian and bestselling author Jenny Lawson, recounts her lifelong battle with crippling depression and anxiety. She’s (sometimes brutally) honest about her struggles, but manages to find the humor in it. The result is an entertaining read that will probably make you laugh, and certainly make you realize that you’re not alone in your pain and struggles. Hardcore Self Help: F**k Depression Robert Duff According to author Robert Duff, his book Hardcore Self Help: Best for postpartum depression: Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts: A Healing Guide to the Secret Fears of New Mothers Author Carrie Wrigley, a counselor with over 30 years of experience, does an amazing job combining assessments, self-help tools, and invaluable information in this guide to preventing and overcoming depression. The book combines a variety of approaches, including CBT, positive psychology, behavior modification, and interpersonal therapy, for a well-rounded, versatile resource.Overcoming Depression – A Cognitive Therapy Approach: Therapist Guideis the companion to this workbook. It details the step-by-step cognitive therapy treatment for depression. Overcoming Depression is a comprehensive program which assists clinicians in delivering effective CBT for depression. The program includes two books: I’m far from the first person to find that writing books can be a salve for the suffering mind. In the 17th century, Robert Burton researched and wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy to keep his mind from slipping into the very topic on which he focused his attention. For its breadth and timelessness, his tome is the first of my Top 10. From this historical foundation, I then travel through a diversity of voices and experiences, each representing a milestone in how we understand, treat, and de-stigmatise depression. As one of the loneliest human experiences, and paradoxically one of the most common, the understanding to be found in these books can offer a vital kind of company for the isolated sufferer. For anyone looking for information on the power of cognitive behavioural therapy, this is one of the most up-to-date accounts of how it works, when it should be used, and how long its effects can last. For the right person, CBT can overturn the negative thoughts that cause and maintain a depressive episode. Therapists use the Therapist Guides which contain step-by-step instructions for teaching clients’ skills, overcoming common difficulties.

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Clients use the Workbooks which contain elements of psychoeducation, skills development, self-assessment quizzes, homework exercises, and record forms. In the autumn of 2015, I felt numb, worthless, and had thoughts of ending my life. I was 25 years old and I was experiencing my first bout of depression, an illness that has ebbed and flowed ever since. At first, I was hesitant to take medication and opted for a course of cognitive behavioural therapy. I worried that medication would dampen my brain, dull my experience of the world and my ability to describe it. Only later did I find that the right drug is a key tool for my career. When I’m stable I can write. When I’m depressed, I can barely walk or talk. Yes, you can read books about depression whether you’ve been diagnosed or not. Doing so may help you better understand your feelings and work through them. It may even inspire you to visit a mental health practitioner, or the reading may be useful for conversations you have with an existing therapist. While it's helpful to hear perspectives on depression from a spectrum of people, it's often best to choose a book penned by a mental health expert. A mental health expert is someone who has been medically trained, has personal experience working with many types of people with depression, and has likely put in thousands of hours into the topic.

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A substantial body of evidence now supports the use of CBT for overcoming depression. It is recommended in clinical practice guidelines for treating depression developed by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which produces guidelines for the National Health Service in the United Kingdom (APA, 2019; NICE, 2022). Evidence for this approach is impressive. A recent, comprehensive review of studies identified CBT as an effective treatment for depression (Cuijpers, 2017). Other meta-analyses indicate that CBT for depression is equally effective in individual therapy and guided self-help formats (Cuijpers et al., 2019). Chapters in Overcoming Depression – A Cognitive Therapy Approach: Workbook: Feeling entirely alone in their battle is a common feeling among those suffering from depression. That common feeling is so powerful and prevalent, that including You Are Not Alone on our list of the best self-improvement books for those battling depression was an easy choice. The book is comprised entirely of conversations with people with depression. They share their stories, their triumphs, and their lowest moments. Over the course of the book, readers will realize that they are not alone in their depression, and that their feelings are completely valid. You Mean I Don’t Have to Feel This Way? New Help for Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction Colette Dowling

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Cuijpers, P. (2017). Four decades of outcome research on psychotherapies for adult depression: An overview of a series of meta-analyses. Canadian Psychology / Psychologie Canadienne, 58, 7–19. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000096. Depression is the most common mental health population in the general population (Kessler et al., 1994). It is estimated that around 11% of individuals will experience depression at some point in their lifetime (Lim et al., 2018). Symptoms include feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, or guilt; loss of interest in activities; reduced energy; changes in sleep or appetite; and thoughts of suicide or death. Doubling as both memoir and self help book, How to Weep in Public by comedian Jacqueline Novak is a darkly hilarious look at what it’s like to live with depression. Novak’s aim is not to magically cure her reader. Rather, she aims to make them feel not so alone, bring a little bit of comfort and humor, and ultimately offer tips to manage emotions and “fight this some other day.” I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression Terrence RealOne in four women start their day with medication. According to authors Kelly Brogan, MD and Kristin Loberg, this dependence upon drugs has become the panacea for panic and grief, to depression and irritability, and everything in between. But Brogan and Loberg insist that the key to a woman’s happiness cannot be found in a drugstore. Rather, they recommend a more holistic approach based on years of experience working in a clinical practice and publishing her own medical findings. A Mind of Your Own lays out this unique approach in a step-by-step 30-day action plan. Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think Dennis Greenberger and Christine Padesky