Best Depression Books
Here you will get Best Depression Books For you.This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
1. Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety
Author: by David D. Burns
English
454 pages
168373288X
From the author who has sold more than 5 million copies of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy comes a new and revolutionary high-speed treatment for depression and anxiety. Feeling Great is based on 40 years of research and more than 40,000 hours treating individuals with severe mood problems.
The goal is not just a rapid and complete elimination of negative feelings but the development of joy and enlightenment. In Feeling Great, Dr. David Burns reveals that our negative moods do not result from what’s wrong with us, but rather-what’s right with us.
And when you listen and suddenly hear what your negative thoughts and feelings are trying to tell you, suddenly you won’t need them anymore, and recovery will be just a stone’s throw away. Dr. Burns will provide you with inspiring and mind-blowing case studies along with more than 50 amazing tools to crush the negative thoughts that rob you of happiness and self-esteem.
Are you tired of feeling Down, depressed, or unhappy? Anxious, panicky, or insecure? You can change the way you feel! You owe it to yourself to FEEL GREAT!
2. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Author: by David D. Burns
0380731762
English
706 pages
The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other black holes of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist David D.Burns, M.D. Outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life.
Now, in this updated edition, Dr Burns adds an all-new Consumers Guide To Antidepressant Drugs, as well as a new introduction to help answer your questions about the many options available for treating depression. Recognise what causes your mood swings.
Nip negative feelings in the bud.Deal with guilt. Handle hostility and criticism. Overcome addiction to love and approval.Build self-esteem.Feel good everyday.
3. Mind Over Mood, Second Edition: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think
Author: by Dennis Greenberger
The Guilford Press
English
341 pages
Discover simple yet powerful steps you can take to overcome emotional distress-and feel happier, calmer, and more confident. This life-changing book has already helped more than 1,200,000 readers use cognitive-behavioral therapy-one of today’s most effective forms of psychotherapy-to conquer depression, anxiety, panic attacks, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, eating disorders, substance abuse, and relationship problems.
Revised and expanded to reflect significant scientific developments of the past 20 years, the second edition contains numerous new features: expanded content on anxiety; chapters on setting personal goals and maintaining progress; happiness rating scales; gratitude journals; innovative exercises focused on mindfulness, acceptance, and forgiveness; 25 new worksheets; and much more.
Mind Over Mood will help you:*Learn proven, powerful, practical strategies to transform your life. Follow step-by-step plans to overcome depression, anxiety, anger, guilt, and shame. Set doable personal goals and track your progress (you can photocopy the worksheets from the book or download and print additional copies).
5. Essential Art Therapy Exercises: Effective Techniques to Manage Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD
Author: by Leah Guzman ATR-BC
English
162 pages
1646111621
Discover the healing power of art therapy The purposeful act of making art can be more than a creative outlet. It can also help individuals gain self-awareness, process difficult thoughts, and even ease the effects of past traumas. Essential Art Therapy Exercises, a cognitive behavioral therapy workbook, offers a range of creative activities to help you better understand yourself, develop control over your emotions, and aid the healing process.
This well-reviewed art therapy workbook includes: Exercises for healing and self-discovery75 strategic art therapy activities offer new opportunities for self-expression and tools for coping with mood and personality disorders. Supportive prompts and interactionsEach exercise includes an explanation of its purpose and potential outcomes along with a series of insightful post-activity questions.
Judgment-free guidanceLearn the basics of different artistic techniques and mediums, like drawing, painting, and sculptingno previous art experience necessary. Helpful supply lists and tipsIncludes a complete list of the art supplies you’ll need for each art therapy project and advice on creating your own healing space.
6. Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
Author: by Stanley Rosenberg
English
296 pages
1623170249
The best-selling book on the topicnow in 14 languages. This practical guide to understanding the cranial nerves as the key to our psychological and physical well-being builds on Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theoryone of the most important recent developments in human neurobiology.
Drawing on more than thirty years of experience as a craniosacral therapist and Rolfer, Stanley Rosenberg explores the crucial role that the vagus nerve plays in determining our psychological and emotional states and explains that a myriad of common psychological and physical symptomsfrom anxiety and depression to migraines and back painindicates a lack of proper functioning in the vagus nerve.
Through a series of easy self-help exercises, the book illustrates the simple ways we can regulate the vagus nerve in order to initiate deep relaxation, improve sleep, and recover from injury and trauma. Additionally, by exploring the link between a well-regulated vagus nerve and social functioning, Rosenberg’s findings and methods offer new hope that by improving social behavior it is possible to alleviate some of the symptoms at the core of many cases of autism spectrum disorders.
7. Out of the Cave: Stepping into the Light when Depression Darkens What You See
Author: by Chris Hodges
English
256 pages
1400221250
Do you feel guilt and shame about negative thoughts and emotions and your inability to overcome them? Bestselling author and pastor Chris Hodges helps those struggling with depression find liberating solutions by drawing from the life of the prophet Elijah.
You might be asking, Should a Christian even be having these struggles? Depression is the number one health issue in the world today, yet those who suffer are still sometimes stigmatizedespecially followers of Jesus. Many assume God’s peace, power, and protection should prevent us from ever feeling anxious, depressed, and afraid.
But the Bible teaches otherwise, particularly in its depiction of the life of the Old Testament prophet Elijah. In Out of the Cave, Chris Hodges uses Elijah’s life to show us that everyone is susceptible to depression. Even when we’re walking closely with God, we can still stumble and get lost in the wilderness of tangled emotions.
But we don’t have to stay there, because we serve a God who meets us in the darkness. Out of the Cave helps usremove the stigma of depression and realize we’re not alone;understand the ways our temperament and view of God affect the way we handle depression; andlearn a comprehensive approach to wellnessmind, body, and soulfrom Elijah’s journey.
8. Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts: A Healing Guide to the Secret Fears of New Mothers
Author: by Karen Kleiman
Familius
English
160 pages
Over 90 percent of new mothers will have scary, intrusive thoughts about their baby and themselves.What if I drop him? What if I snap and hurt my baby? Mothering is so hard. I don’t know if I really want to do this anymore.
Gosh, I’m so terrible for thinking that! Yet for too many mothers, those thoughts remain secret, hidden away in shame that make you feel even worse. But here’s the good news: you CAN feel better! Author Karen Kleiman, coauthor of the seminal book This Isn’t What I Expected and founder of the acclaimed Postpartum Stress Center, comes to the aid of new mothers everywhere with a groundbreaking new source of hope, compassion, and expert help.
Good Mothers Have Scary Thoughts is packed with world-class guidance, simple exercises, and nearly 50 stigma-busting cartoons from the viral #speakthesecret campaign that help new moms validate their feelings, share their fears, and start feeling better. Lighthearted yet serious, warm yet not sugary, and perfectly portioned for busy moms with full plates, Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts is the go-to resource for moms, partners, and families everywhere who need help with this difficult period.
9. Recklessly Alive: What My Suicide Attempt Taught Me About God and Living Life to the Fullest
Author: by Sam Eaton
English
190 pages
1735585467
You deserve to stop suffering and create a life that is fully and recklessly alive.Every 12. 3 minutes someone completes suicide, and I was almost one of them. I had written letters, picked a day, and packed up all my belongings because I believed my life was worthless and disposable.
What lies ahead of you is my journey from suicide attempt toward abundant life. I share it with you in hopes that you can see yourself or someone you love in my story and find the courage to start conversations about faith, mental health, depression, and suicide.
I am not a pastor, a deep-sea diver, an Avenger, or a mongoose whisperer. I have never sawed off my own arm, had my hand digested by a shark, or experienced any other amazing feat of humanity. I am just an average guy who found his world slipping away andin a moment of extreme claritymade the terrifying decision to stay and chase a life that is fully and recklessly alive.
This book is for anyone who:Feels stuck, hopeless and aloneStruggles with finding their purpose or wanting to be aliveLoves someone who battles mental health, depression, or suicidal thoughtsWants to understand warning signs of suicide and how to helpDesires to feel more fully and recklessly aliveSam Eaton is a powerful voice for his generation as an innovative ministry leader and sought-after communicator.
10. Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode–and into a Life of Connection and Joy
Author: by Aundi Kolber
English
256 pages
1496439651
In the wise and soulful tradition of teachers like Shauna Niequist and Brene Brown, therapist Aundi Kolber debuts with Try Softer, helping us align our mind, body, and soul to live the life God created for us. In a world that preaches a try harder gospeljust keep going, keep hustling, keep pretending we’re all finewe’re left exhausted, overwhelmed, and so numb to our lives.
If we’re honest, we’ve been overfunctioning for so long, we can’t even imagine another way. How else will things get done? How else will we survive? It doesn’t have to be this way. Aundi Kolber believes that we don’t have to white-knuckle our way through life.
In her debut book, Try Softer, she’ll show us how God specifically designed our bodies and minds to work together to process our stories and work through obstacles. Through the latest psychology, practical clinical exercises, and her own personal story, Aundi equips and empowers us to connect us to our truest self and truly live.
This is the try softer life. In Try Softer, you’ll learn how to:Know and set emotional and relational boundariesMake sense of the difficult experiences you’ve hadIdentify your attachment styleand how that affects your relationships todayMove through emotions rather than get stuck by themGrow in self-compassion and talk back to your inner criticTrying softer is sacred work.
11. Reasons to Stay Alive
Author: by Matt Haig
Penguin Life
English
272 pages
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.”Destined to become a modern classic.” Entertainment WeeklyWHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? At the age of 24, Matt Haig’s world caved in. He could see no way to go on living.
This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir.
It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.”I wrote this book because the oldest clichs remain the truest.Time heals. The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view. The tunnel does have light at the end of it, even if we haven’t been able to see it …
Words, just sometimes, really can set you free.”
12. Thera-pets: 64 Emotional Support Animal Cards (Self-Esteem, Affirmations, Help with Anxiety, Worry and Stress, and for Fans of You Can Do All Things)
Author: by Kate Allan
Mango (August 11, 2020)
English
64 pages
An Art Therapy Card Deck of Emotional Support Animals to Make Every Day Easier#1 Best Seller in Mental Health, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Phobias, and Card GamesOracle card lovers and fans of Kate Allan and her colorful, inspirational illustrations will treasure this deck of self-love and daily affirmations cards.
Kate draws from her own struggles with anxiety and depression to create soothing art therapy. Art therapy to brighten your day. Think of it as an inspirational card deck of emotional support animals to take with you anywhere (even places you might not be able to take a therapy dog)an airplane, a trip to the dentist, first day at a new job or anytime you need a little boost of cheer and encouragement.
Give the gift of uplifting quotes. This card deck of 50 cute doodles comes from the author of the bestselling You Can Do All Things. Each card of positive affirmations offers you a daily moment of joy to escape from the problems so many of us face in this hectic, modern world.
13. Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope
Author: by Johann Hari
Bloomsbury Publishing
English
416 pages
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world.Why?
He had a very personal reason to ask this question. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn’t control it or understand it.
Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief-but he remained in deep pain. So, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them.
He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety-and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope.
14. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Author: by Kay Redfield Jamison
0679763309
Vintage
English
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORIn her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand.
For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide.
Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication. An Unquiet Mind is a memoir of enormous candor, vividness, and wisdoma deeply powerful book that has both transformed and saved lives.
15. When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Author: by Harold S. Kushner
1400034728
Anchor
English
The #1 bestselling inspirational classic from the nationally known spiritual leader; a source of solace and hope for over 4 million readers. When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease that meant the boy would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God?
Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes. In these pages, Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being. Often imitated but never superseded, When Bad Things Happen to Good People is a classic that offers clear thinking and consolation in times of sorrow.
16. The Anxiety Check-In: A Guided Journal to Support Your Mental Health and Help You Through the Hard Days (A Daily Wellness Journal for Anxiety Relief and Self-Care, Gifts for Millennial Women)
Author: by Bree Cartwright
English
128 pages
1728225493
An easy mental health journal to find some anxiety relief and conquer the dumpster fire daysRaise your hand if you’ve ever said, “I’m fine” and didn’t actually mean it. Welcome to an exclusive club: you are officially one of over 7.
5 billion people who do not have their mental health totally together (but you’re trying your best). When the bad days happen and you feel yourself running thin, it’s time to turn to a guided journal that will help craft your coping skills, develop some self-care, and discover manageable anxiety relief.
The guided prompts in The Anxiety Check-In ask the simple, honest questions to help sort the thoughts racing through your head. A non-intimidating resource for your mental health, this book will show you how to be happy by covering sections on:Wellness: a handy guide for what positive mental health does (and doesn’t) look like to help you get started and set manageable goalsAnxiety: tips for identifying anxiety, dealing productively with stress and pressure, and saying “yes” to life even when it scares youDepression: advice for weathering the storm and reconnecting with the activities and people that will lift you out of your funkSelf-awareness: face facts and make a plan for the real you?
