Talking to Depression: Simple Ways To Connect When Someone In Your Life Is Depressed
- ISBN13: 9780451209863
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Product Description
When someone suffers from depression, friends and family members naturally want to help-but too often their good intentions come out all wrong. This practical, compassionate guide helps readers understand exactly what their loved one is going through, and why certain approaches help and others have the potential to do damage. Talking to Depression offers specific advice on what to do and what not to do-and what to say and what not to say-to avoid frustration and give the kind of caring, effective support that will make a difference.
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This book seems to summarise what is already known, and fits Bipolar into the medical model rather than the wholistic health model. You can get most of this information from the information sheets published by the drug companies and the DSM IV. I myself am a mental health RN, my partner a naturopath, so I am not ignorant on either viewpoint. This is not a book I suggest family members read as their first choice when it comes to depression. Taking tablets is not the only choice, nor does it mean things are improved as research has clearly shown. Cognitive therapies which this book promotes as something that benefits in conjunction with medication, can be better as a stand alone especially with regard to anti anxiolitics which impair therapy, Something this book does not grasp. The author is a specialist in learning disorders and altzymers, which is radically different from depression. As a professional myself, I can see clearly where this author has gone wrong. If you still buy this book, keep in mind it is only one point of view, and a narrow one at that.
Rating: 2 / 5
Talking to Depression: Simple Ways To Connect When Someone In Your Life Is Depressed
This book is very helpful to people who interact with people who suffer from depression. Speaking as someone who has struggled with depression for years, it contains information and advice I didn’t even think of and I would find helpful. It’s not very technical and it’s short and simple, but it is a great gift for someone who wants to help but doesn’t know how.
Rating: 5 / 5
Talking to Depression: Simple Ways To Connect When Someone In Your Life Is Depressed
excellent book ! well-structed, easy to read, practical manual that you can follow in the daily life. I just finished it and I really think i am lucky to find this book to read. It is the right one to help me to cope with the daily challenge,as i have been struggling in the support for the one i loved in depression, sometimes confused and sometimes frustrated. I hope more peopel in this need could read it coz it’s really useful.
Rating: 5 / 5
Talking to Depression: Simple Ways To Connect When Someone In Your Life Is Depressed
As a former mental health therapist and a person diabled by depression, I highly recommend this book. I wish I had had it 7 years ago when my mother moved in with me. She was saying all the “don’ts” and not doing any of the “dos”. I got this book recently and read through it, marvelling at how my mother has, over the years, learned how to help me with my depression.
Another plus for this book is that it is written on a human level, not using a lot of dry facts or professional terminology, but just saying what needs to be said. It even includes a section on how children and teenagers can learn what to say and do as well as a section on what to say and do if a parent notices symptoms of depression in their child or adolescent.
Rating: 5 / 5
Talking to Depression: Simple Ways To Connect When Someone In Your Life Is Depressed
As someone who has suffered from depression for years, I found the book to be fairly accurate. It doesn’t provide a lot of detail, but it gives enough information that non-sufferers can gain a little better understanding of the illness and how to deal with those suffering from it. At 200 pages it’s a very easy read (I read it in two sittings). Not a bad book to get a quick overview on depression and some ideas on how you can help (and what *not* to do) when someone you care about is suffering.
Rating: 4 / 5
Talking to Depression: Simple Ways To Connect When Someone In Your Life Is Depressed