Why Make this Book Your Guidebook for Overcoming Depression

 

This workbook is designed to help you stop muddling through your life and show you how to start making needed changes to achieve happiness and overcome depression.

This book stands out from other books on overcoming depression because I was a former depressive. I know what worked for me that several therapists didn't education me on. In my book, I share how depression can be beat. People with bipolar and schizophrenia have even been helped with this information.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by it all or helpless about your situation and looking for a change, you may be suffering from depression. I've been there myself and learned how to overcome it. There is help. I wrote this book to help people, perhaps like yourself, who have depression, so they can overcome it too.

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At the heart of the skills is critical thinking. Learning the skill of critical thinking is a significant skill for overcoming depression. With this skill, challenging negative thoughts comes with ease. Evaluating feelings and thoughts for objectivity becomes the norm, and identifying truth in negative thoughts becomes routine.

This self-help book can help you to:

• Be a leader of change in your life. This could help you live longer and happier.

• Change your outlook on life.

• Stop letting other people guide your life.

• Finally beat and over depression.

• Change low self-esteem. Learn who you are... really like yourself.

• Begin to take control of your life and stop anxiety.

• Learn to transform negative thinking into positive action.

• Relieve stress through effective decision-making strategies.

• Learn to break self-defeating behaviors and addiction

• Improve your relationships and improve communication skills.

• Improve career, personal, family, and interpersonal choices.

• Be able to help those closest to you to live more successfully

And, learn how to have hope and have something to live for

oWhat This Book Will Teach You

If you are looking for a way to start helping yourself or someone you know overcome depression, this book may be what you're looking for. This easy to read book is at the forefront of teaching educational skills to overcome depression.

In this book, you'll learn:

	Key strategies to get you started discovering the root causes of your depression.
	Key tools to help you fundamentally learn how to take control of your life and your depression.
	Key techniques to help you effectively challenge the things that make you feel depressed.
	Key methods for overcoming your depression and maintaining a clear mind so you can experience the fruitful life you've longed for.

Make Depression A Thing of the Past

Step One: make the decision that you want to start taking control over your depression.

Step Two: decide how you will start taking control. My experience with depression was that I didn't know where to turn for help. At that time I didn't know about the different therapy options and the different beliefs on how to treat depression. You can read more in my workbook of how I overcame depression and how I conquered depression throug education.

If you decide that seeing a therapist is the option for you, before going to your doctor or therapists, it is to your advantage to first understand that not all therapy is the same. There is cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy, feminist therapy, and positive therapy - just to name a few. Experiencing depression is confusing enough. It's easy to start believing that there's no control over it. Become more informed and educated about depression. This gives you more power over the process of overcoming it.

If you do decide to see a therapists or doctor, here are five basic questions to ask:

1) How will he/she test me for depression, and is the test statistically sound? Know that diagnosing tests can be biased such as for genders, age, or ethnicity.

2) What does the doctor believe is the major cause for MY depression? There are several: biological, genetic, environmental, and neuropsychological. This will impact what your therapist/doctor will recommend you for treatment. My cause of depression was from a lack of critical thinking skills, which therapists/doctors do not use to diagnose or treat. If you think depression is something other than biological or genetic, you may benefit from learning the skills in my workbook.

3) What are ALL of my options for therapy/treatment?

4) How will the therapist’s/doctor’s therapy or treatment help me overcome depression better than other methods?

5) What to expect for long-term success with the therapy/treatment he/she recommends for you?

And, take along this workbook. Perhaps you and your therapist can work through it together.

I've just finished reading Jill Maschio's book. I'm dumbfounded by how good it is. And I mean in every possible way. Her ideas about how to overcome depression strike me as surprising and original. I've never before heard of proposing 'CT' as a serious way out of that dismal state. This is a way that eschews both pills and psychotherapy (although it can work well as an adjunct to both)! She develops her theme with such detail, such meticulous care and organization. Not only are her ideas original and well developed, her writing is wonderfully lucid, straight forward, and unpretentious. She writes convincingly, and with obvious sincerity and passion, about a process that she herself has undergone. Every aspect of the book has been handled with consummate skill. Ms. Maschio has, in my opinion, made a real contribution in this dark area and focused light on an overlooked and unexpected source of help: one's own 'self-start' button."
Jack Seaton - Author of "Where Do I Come From? Where Am I Going?"

"This is the most practical self-help book for personal development that I have encountered in my nearly 60 years. Jill offers no 'magic bullets' or 'one-size-fits-all' formulas, but instead describes her challenges and the tools and techniques that led her through a liberating and permanent growth process to emotional and psychological maturity. The step-by-step procedures, exercises, and the many opportunities for self-reflection are invaluable no matter how serious or how insignificant one's problems…and readers can go at their own speed, as quickly or slowly as is comfortable for their situation and learning style. Jill has provided a tremendous public service with her book."
Carolyn Abbott

"I felt bad about myself for so long that I actually believed that I could never start liking myself or my life. The self-discovery chapter helped show me how to begin looking at myself in a new, positive way."
Rachel Seymour

"Upon receiving the book, one evening after a long day at work, I put on my jammies and went to bed to read it. Immediately I thought, my gosh…I see myself in so many ways. The way Jill talks about depression, feelings, emotion, physical, etc., it's all me. I couldn't wait to read more."
Patricia Reid

"As a manager, I wish that all my employees would read this book. I feel this book can help people learn how to make better decisions and be happier in the workplace. This type of employee is valuable to the company and can help increase production because these employees work more efficiently and contribute to a learning environment."
Lorraine De Lorme

Isn't it time to give yourself the chance you deserve to overcome depression?