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Feeling Terrific: Four Strategies for Overcoming Depression Using Mood Regulation Therapy

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At last a book that spells out the way mental health should be defined: not by the absence of particular pathological symptoms alone but when the whole person, biologically, socially, cognitively, and spiritually is integrated into a life-affirming homeostasis and "feeling terrific." This book goes beyond the idea of simply alleviating the symptoms of depression. This is an example of real mental health promotion which the medical establishment in the past has been slow to embrace. As the book points out, the mental heath field has been too focused on its achievements of eliminating depression when it occurs. There are greater rewards for being focused, instead, on preventing depression from re-occuring.

FEELING TERRIFIC spells out the ways in which a person can assess their own moods and the reasons for them occuring at particular times. It encourages the person suffering from depression to be an active participant in learning how to successfully regulate their own moods. Shows how a person can break old cycles of thinking and behavior, and, with a little practice, interject healthier ones. Wonderful for those professionals who will be able to expand their own ideas of what is possible and a boon for those struggling with depression as well. Well done. A. B. Curtiss, author of BRAINSWITCH OUT OF DEPRESSION: BREAK THE CYCLE OF DESPAIR and DEPRESSION IS A CHOICE: WINNING THE BATTLE WITHOUT DRUGS.