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Challenging Depression and Despair Angela Patmore

Challenging Depression and Despair By Angela Patmore

Challenging Depression and Despair by Angela Patmore

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Summary

A fresh and accessible self-help programme by a renowned expert on stress and depression.

Challenging Depression and Despair Summary

Challenging Depression and Despair: A Medication-Free, Self-Help Programme That Will Change Your Life by Angela Patmore

This book uses positive, common sense strategies that will enable you to regain emotional control, and show that it is possible to combat depression without resorting to drugs or costly and often ineffective therapy. The first part offers fesh insights into depression and into how it can be overcome. The second part 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.

About Angela Patmore

ANGELA PATMORE is a former Guardian columnist on sports psychology and a regular contributor to press and television features on stress. She served on Sir John Stevens' Metropolitan Police Stress Experts' Advisory Group and her expose, The Truth About Stress, was shortlisted for the 2007 MIND Book of the Year Award. From 2003 to 2006, Angela Patmore worked as a life skills trainer within the Employment Service, using a mental skills programme that provides the basis for this book. She is based in London NW1.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 CONQUERING DEPRESSION: THE KNOWLEDGE; 1. Drugs for Despair; 'Pull yourself together'; 'Out of the medicine chest into the mouth'; 'Sunshine pills'; Other SSRIs; Seroxat; And finally - how well do they work?; Notes; 2. 'Is It Just Me?' The depression pandemic; To hell with that lot - what about me?; Emotions under new management; Are my feelings symptoms?; Nobody understands me; 3. When Words Fail You; Scientists 'discover' literature; How literature 'works'; The 'blue devils'; Exercise; Note; 4. The 'Born Loser'; Mindsets of doom; Deaf to all entreaties; The 'gloom and doom' merchants; The Puritans and the 'castaway'; Defying 'fate': Daniel Defoe; Exercise; 5. Mental Illness Labels; The 'I need a syndrome' syndrome; Wounding the mind; Problems with 'PTSD'; Notes; 6. The Harm of Calm The 'stress' business; Sloppy science; Notes; 7. Crises and Revelations; Escapist strategies; Revelations and epiphanies; 'Complexity science'; The brain's battle stations; The light at the end of the tunnel; Notes; 8. Stop 'Giving Up the Ghost'; Resignation, not 'stress'; The sting in the tail; The helpless profile; Helpless thinking; How NOT to be helpless; The need for pressure; Bullying; Notes; 9. Accepting Loss; Coming to terms with loss; Self-pity; Types of loss; Loss itself; Mourning; Five little lifelines; Four-legged loss; 10. Going for the 'CC'; The arousal curve; Going for the golden feeling; CC pursuits; Assignment; Thrill-seeking; The arts; Go on - give yourself a thrill!; 11. Getting Tough; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde revisited; Life skills; Mental strength and weakness; 'Hardening'; Now I'd like you to meet Esmeralda!; Brain training made easy; Inside the blackened room; Note; 12. Meet the Advisory Panel; The Team; Part 2 BEATING DESPAIR: THE CHALLENGES; 13. One: The Unblocker Challenge; A sense of wonder; Why do people just sit there?; Improvisation; Rules for improvising; The unblocker; What panel members thought; Note; 14. Two: The Fitness Challenge; Nature and despair; The dirty word; Gym; Swim; Slim; Slowly does it; What panel members thought; 15. Three: The Task Challenge; Problem-solving grids; 'BrainstormingOh-no' tasks; What panel members thought; 16. Four: The Social Challenge; Nervousness; Being 'shy'; Go up and talk; Doormats and divas; Assertiveness exercises; Taking the social challenge; What panel members thought; 17. Five: The Mood Change Challenge; The 'before and after' face experiment; Emotional victims and emotional victors; Engaging with the arts; Classical music; Great works of fiction; Classics of the cinema; What panel members thought; Notes; 18. Six: The Nature Challenge; Big open spaces; 'Barrier beliefs'; Record your experience; Getting involved with Nature; Gardening; What panel members thought; Notes; 19. Seven: The Performance Challenge; Nerves are good, boring is bad; On their hind legs; Presentation skills; Two kinds of presentation; Eleven tips for preparing talks; Flying by the seat of your pants; Keeping a record; What panel members thought; 20. Eight: The Creative Challenge; You are creative!; Hemispheres; Imagination; Off with the fairies; Originality; The screen-staring society; How to 'step aside'?; What panel members thought; Note; 21. Nine: The Fear Challenge; The scared dog puzzle; Phobias galore!; The mouse fear; Desensitisation; Going towards fear; Pinning down your fears; Trouncing fear: the nature of the ninth challenge; Psychological dares; What panel members thought; 22. Ten: The Life Challenge; The slow sedation of wants; Your own motivation; Dreams and goals; Taking the pledge; Index.

Additional information

GOR004100892
9781845284398
1845284399
Challenging Depression and Despair: A Medication-Free, Self-Help Programme That Will Change Your Life by Angela Patmore
Angela Patmore
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
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