Challenging Depression and Despair: A medication-free, self-help programme that will change your life

Patmore, Angela

ISBN 10: 1845284399 / ISBN 13: 9781845284398

Published by How To Books, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Challenging Depression and Despair: A medication-free, self-help programme that will change your life
• Publisher: How To Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845284399
• ISBN 13: 9781845284398
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 14 ounces

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Synopsis

This book is offered as a lifeline to people at the bottom of the bottomless pit of depression. It will explain the research and the thinking behind the 'tough love' approach, much of which may be new to you because it flies in the face of current trends. With positive, common sense strategies, this book enables you to regain emotional control, showing that it is possible to combat depression without resorting to drugs or costly and often ineffective therapy. The first part of the book offers fresh insights into depression and into how it can be overcome. The second offers practical advice, culminating in a series of challenges that will enable you to change your entire attitude to emotional health and achieve a more positive and hopeful outlook on life. To be of any real use to someone in despair, a self-help programme must provide, step by step, a practical stairway out of hell. This is that stairway.

About the Author

THE AUTHOR is a former international Fulbright Scholar, UEA research fellow, external expert 'stress' adviser to the Metropolitan Police, and highly successful life skills trainer. 'Widely regarded as a heartless bitch' (The New Statesman), Angela Patmore is one of the UK's fiercest critics of the 'stress' management industry. The government-backed Restart programme for the long-term unemployed in Colchester for which she was the course trainer had by far the best record in the region and got people back to work who had serious social and psychological problems. Her expose of 'stress management', The Truth About Stress, was shortlisted for the 2007 MIND Book of the Year Award.