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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of It's Not Always Depression by Hilary Jacobs Hendel, read by Cassandra Campbell. Includes a PDF of reference materials. We were all taught that our thoughts affect our emotions, but in truth it is largely the other way around: we have to experience our emotions to truly understand our thoughts and our full selves. This is why we should think not only about cognitive behavioural therapy or medication but also about our emotions when addressing psychological suffering.

As an award-winning journalist, Jehan Casinader told other people's stories—until he lost control of his own. Severely depressed, he tried everything—from mindfulness to massage; Prozac to pilates. Was something missing? This Is Not How It Ends chronicles Jehan's four-year battle with depression, and how the power of storytelling helped him to survive. He argues that many of us think our brains are broken, but in fact, our stories are broken. Jehan began an experiment on himself. Could he rewrite his past? Could he reinvent his character? Could he create a whole new plot?

In this compassionate and empowering book, noted psychologists Gordon J. G. Asmundson and Steven Taylor provide simple and accurate self-tests designed to help you understand health anxiety and the role it might be playing in how you feel. Concrete examples and helpful exercises show you how to change thought and behavior patterns that contribute to the aches, pains, and anxiety you're experiencing. The authors also explain how to involve friends and family - and when to seek professional help - as you learn to stay well without worry.

Terrie had made it: She had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search of relief. For 30 years she kept on her game face of success, exhausting herself daily to satisfy her clients' needs while neglecting her own. When she finally collapsed, she had no clue what was wrong or if there was a way out.

You’re tired. You have trouble sleeping and thinking, you feel down and stressed out, and you worry that you’ve lost your edge. You're plagued by many physical symptoms, too! Your doctor told you that you were depressed, handed you a prescription for an antidepressant, and referred you to a psychiatrist. Your heart of hearts truly believes that you're not depressed, but you don't know what causes you to feel this way.

Getting It Done When You're Depressed offers 50 strategies to break the cycle of inactivity that so often accompanies depression. These strategies are practical and easily applicable for anyone trying to lead a lifetime of productivity, regardless of your mood.

After 20 years of trying every option our mental health system had to offer, Bronte Spicer believed she would live with depression forever. It wasn’t until she found a set of advanced mindfulness techniques, backed by modern neuroscience, that she realized she had been stuck in depression because she had not been feeling her feelings within her body. Today, Bronte is a Certified Kiloby Inquiries Facilitator and offers herself as a gentle mentor who effortlessly interweaves her lived experience of depression with a practical and accessible guide for how to live freely—and just be human.

A practical, insightful and much-needed guidebook for people with depression and those who love them.

This audiobook is your roadmap to reclaiming control. It offers real-life, actionable strategies designed to calm the mind, restore balance, and help you break free from anxiety’s grip.

No matter how jaded and frustrated you feel, there is a way to lead a more fulfilling life. Find out how with this frank and life-changing audiobook. This audiobook is specifically for men who are struggling in life right now. The overwhelming chaos of life is almost unbearable, and amongst it all you're neglecting yourself. Many men wake up one day and wonder how their life has turned into a disaster zone, full of responsibilities and obligations, and no time to truly have fun and be themselves.

In And It Was All Your Fault, the author and humanistic psychologist Roman Gelperin will teach you all about the little-known causes, cures, and unseen inner psychology of depression. Having personally experienced depression, consumed all the best literature and research on the subject, and for a year-and-a-half even dated a girl with a long history of depression while writing this book, the author weaves introspection, interpersonal observation, and cutting-edge research into a masterful and eye-opening narrative explaining depression.

In 2009, Jim Denning was left for dead - not only by his own mindset, but by the medical community that had thrown in the towel and told him to go home and resign himself to a life of struggle, suicidal tendencies, depression, anxiety, and more. However, through his faith in God and his self-determination, Jim essentially hacked his body, mind, and spirit - and chose life.

Many people suffer from depression on a daily basis. The hard part is learning to live with it. Getting up and getting moving can seem like an insurmountable chore. You know you need to be productive but your brain just won't cooperate. Getting It Done When You're Depressed offers 50 strategies to break the cycle of inactivity that so often accompanies depression. These strategies are practical and easily applicable for anyone trying to lead a lifetime of productivity, regardless of your mood.

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be an addict? Do you know someone that is an addict and can not fathom how they got to that point in their lives? Addicts are not always hooked at their first taste of drugs. Not all drugs effect everyone in the same way. This audiobook will reveal my personal story and my addictions as I battled with depression, drugs, and struggled to find meaning and direction in my life. I will tell my story to the road to recovery and the three principals that I applied to life to get me there.

Have a Little Hope is a motivational and inspirational guide to help realign you with your hopes and your dreams. This little audiobook from the Inspirational Books Series will put you back in touch with whatever it is that you hope and dream for in your life today. Because not only will this volume help you get past that rut you've been experiencing in your own life lately, it will help you understand just what it is that's important to you. This audiobook will help you to understand how your own beliefs are either helping or hurting any hopes that you might hold in your heart.

It's no secret that these are very difficult times, and incidents of depression have increased dramatically. This book, How to Stay Depressed: Or Kiss It Goodbye through New Discoveries provides the newest and most up- to-date methods to successfully treat depression. Drawn from many different disciplines - psychotherapy, neurology, nutrition, psychopharmacology, alternative medicine, and even spirituality - it is a simple, listener-friendly guide to understanding and applying this new information.