Catherine Carrigan overcame her own depression and, in the process, devoted several years to researching every possible avenue for healing. In Healing Depression, she presents 38 questions and answers that encourage depression sufferers to take control of their lives by addressing the issues most critical for them. Separate sections each focus on a major treatment avenue: finding a healthcare professional who is capable of treating mind, body, and spirit; identifying medical factors that may be causing a biochemical imbalance; making the connection between stress and depression; adopting an antidepression diet; assessing the need for extra vitamins and minerals; developing positive habits; and learning new exercises.
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The promise of Healing Depression is a tall and complex order, but Carrigan fills it with information and concrete action plans. She begins by explaining the "Catch-22" that many antidepressants decrease serotonin in the brain and it's serotonin that keeps us from being depressed. She goes on to describe how anti-depression medicine destroys organs and creates devastating side effects. Now that she has our attention she writes, "I have an entire arsenal of nutritional and behavioral approaches to alleviate whatever suffering life might naturally throw my way. I am now master of moods, not vice versa." She is talking about herself, a walking casebook for depression with 18 years on medication. Step by step, she found a healthier way, which she shares. Easy to read and understand, Carrigan gives worksheet action plans. It's a "Do It Yourself, Do It Now, Take Charge" book that engages the reader to action, which is the antidote to depression. Healing Depression is about taking respon-sibility for our body, mind and spirit. It's about individual choices. She covers stress and how to identify and reduce it; how depression is anxiety that comes from attachment to expectations; how our thought patterns, nutrition, and need for control affect us. Mental, physical and spiritual health is about balance and we can master that balance. Carrigan hits us along side the head with a 2x4 then gives us plans, materials, and insight. Using these tools we end up with a house we've built ourselves. -- From Independent Publisher
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For anyone who finds that the prevailing remedies of drugs and psychotherapy aren't the full answer to depression's ravages, Healing Depression is a step-by-step guide that empowers you to unlock new strategies for healing.
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This excellent book introduces the depressed reader to the concept that depressed people can learn to restore and maintain normal mood without adverse effects. Without getting overly 'medical' the author accurately explains how people can get a proper diagnosis and restorative treatment. There are many causes of depression and / or contributing factors - therefore, accurate diagnosis is crucial step for determining a restorative treatment for depression. The author's work was reviewed and supplemented by Dr. A. Hoffer, a leading orthomolecular psychiatrist. His excellent work has taught many healthcare professionals how biochemistry can complement psychiatry. Since Dr. Hoffer is both a psychiatrist and a PHD biochemist, he offers unique insights into the benefits of integrating these two fields to help mental patients recover. If you are depressed, this book is worth reading.
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this book is so comprehansive and in the same time explaining every aspect of depression whether it is nutritionaly,clinicaly, psychologicaly, and or mentaly, that is collected and edited from the top leading specialists around the world.it is giving you the choice to chose what kind of therapy makes you feel better,even that the author is recommended on a whole natural, and comprehansive way of treatments on all the subjects that is mentioned.it is written by a very inteligent woman that expirienced the depression on herself, and she know what is working,furthermore, she made a research on that topic at emory university,and a lot of the top experts in the world are agree with that remarcable book.i am also as a therapist learn a lot from that book, and i do believe that all the mental-healers in all of the branches, as well as every depressed person (clinicaly,or not),could,and should read that extraordinary book. you have my recommendation.
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One of the worst books I ever read.,
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Carrigan attempts to solve the worlds problems through a series of overgeneralizations and shoddy research. I don't think any ill intent was present, but this book will make you more depressed.
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