The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression

"Probably the best self-help book on depression I've ever read." - Joe Rhinewine, Director and Psychologist, Portland Mindfulness Therapy

Funny, insightful, and relentlessly honest, The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression is the manual for life with depression that everyone should have been given. It's the toolbox you need to build a life you love.

The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression covers day-to-day truths like how food, sleep, and sex get weird and practical insights like how to handle social relationships. It delves into the deep dark places and talks about how to survive the suicidal thoughts that can come with the worst days of depression.

Steven Skoczen writes with the no-nonsense style and genuine empathy of someone who's lived with depression and his bite-sized chapters are funny, irreverent, and always helpful. Whether you deal with depression or know someone who does, this is the self-help book you need to guide you and your loved ones into a value-filled life.

The No Bullshit Guide to Depression will hand you the tools to...

  • Spend your limited energy in ways that will help you gain more energy
  • Let yourself off the hook (sometimes!)
  • Spot a depressive episode before it gets bad and de-power the harmful thoughts
  • Use research-backed techniques to reduce symptoms
  • Analyze your bad days...and your good ones
  • Take charge of your mental health

Know someone with depression? This book is for you too. It contains tools to help support your friends, family, child or spouse through all the stages of their depression.

"Kitchen-table readable and insanely good. I don't know anyone who's writing about this right now who has such a deep toolbox. " - Marny Lombard, Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention

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The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression

"Probably the best self-help book on depression I've ever read." - Joe Rhinewine, Director and Psychologist, Portland Mindfulness Therapy

Funny, insightful, and relentlessly honest, The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression is the manual for life with depression that everyone should have been given. It's the toolbox you need to build a life you love.

The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression covers day-to-day truths like how food, sleep, and sex get weird and practical insights like how to handle social relationships. It delves into the deep dark places and talks about how to survive the suicidal thoughts that can come with the worst days of depression.

Steven Skoczen writes with the no-nonsense style and genuine empathy of someone who's lived with depression and his bite-sized chapters are funny, irreverent, and always helpful. Whether you deal with depression or know someone who does, this is the self-help book you need to guide you and your loved ones into a value-filled life.

The No Bullshit Guide to Depression will hand you the tools to...

  • Spend your limited energy in ways that will help you gain more energy
  • Let yourself off the hook (sometimes!)
  • Spot a depressive episode before it gets bad and de-power the harmful thoughts
  • Use research-backed techniques to reduce symptoms
  • Analyze your bad days...and your good ones
  • Take charge of your mental health

Know someone with depression? This book is for you too. It contains tools to help support your friends, family, child or spouse through all the stages of their depression.

"Kitchen-table readable and insanely good. I don't know anyone who's writing about this right now who has such a deep toolbox. " - Marny Lombard, Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention

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The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression

The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression

by Steven Skoczen
The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression

The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression

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"Probably the best self-help book on depression I've ever read." - Joe Rhinewine, Director and Psychologist, Portland Mindfulness Therapy

Funny, insightful, and relentlessly honest, The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression is the manual for life with depression that everyone should have been given. It's the toolbox you need to build a life you love.

The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression covers day-to-day truths like how food, sleep, and sex get weird and practical insights like how to handle social relationships. It delves into the deep dark places and talks about how to survive the suicidal thoughts that can come with the worst days of depression.

Steven Skoczen writes with the no-nonsense style and genuine empathy of someone who's lived with depression and his bite-sized chapters are funny, irreverent, and always helpful. Whether you deal with depression or know someone who does, this is the self-help book you need to guide you and your loved ones into a value-filled life.

The No Bullshit Guide to Depression will hand you the tools to...

  • Spend your limited energy in ways that will help you gain more energy
  • Let yourself off the hook (sometimes!)
  • Spot a depressive episode before it gets bad and de-power the harmful thoughts
  • Use research-backed techniques to reduce symptoms
  • Analyze your bad days...and your good ones
  • Take charge of your mental health

Know someone with depression? This book is for you too. It contains tools to help support your friends, family, child or spouse through all the stages of their depression.

"Kitchen-table readable and insanely good. I don't know anyone who's writing about this right now who has such a deep toolbox. " - Marny Lombard, Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780998280400
Publisher: Ink and Feet, LLC
Publication date: 12/06/2016
Pages: 414
Product dimensions: 8.10(w) x 5.70(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

What's Inside

Welcome

Inside This Book

#1: Dammit, Jim, I'm a Writer, Not a Doctor

#2: Dealing with Depression Right Now?

#3: First Time Dealing with Depression?

Depression Basics

WTF Is Depre​ssion?

Typical days of Depre​ssion

The Good Days with Depression

The Bad Days with Depression

The Really Bad Days

The Weird "False Well" Days

Three Big Truths

Spoon Theory

Things Get Weird

Food Gets Weird

Sleep Gets Weird

Your Sex Drive Gets Weird

Everyday Stuff Is Exhausting

Relationships Get Weird

The Pledge

Awesome Tools

Using Your Mind

The Weird, Energy-Sucking Flu

Meet Aunt Dee

Radical Acceptance

Rephrase It

Let Yourself Off The Hook

Mindfulness

Righteous Indignance

Get Grateful

Let Go of the Rope

Present Moment Awareness

Stalk It

Your Actions

Order Pizza

Dial It Back

Eat a Salad

Practice Kindness

Behavioral Activation

Talk to a Rubber Duckie

Write or Journal

Start a Creative Project

Find Your Pizzas

Your Body

Balance Your Diet

Go for a Walk

Work Out or Go for a Run

Laugh and Smile

Eat Spicy Food

Take a Cold Shower

Use Feldenkrais or Somatic Learning Methods

Do Sports, Yoga, or Martial Arts

Directly Hack your Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems

Medication

Your Enviro​nment

Get More Light

Move All Your Furniture

Wear Different Clothes

Stop Drinking

Stop Smoking Weed

Move To a New City

Go on Vacation

Super-Schedule Your Day

Tools to Notice

"Red Flag" Thoughts, Words, and Patterns

Know Your Triggers

Beware the Fruitcake

Monthly

Morning check-in

Sometimes, Depression Will Sneak In Anyway

Tools for the Deep Dark Places

Tools for Handling the Deep Dark Places

Like Drunk Driving

Like Severe Allergies

Act Preemptively

Plan When You're Not Depressed

Call the Pros

Know Your Signs

Your Support People

When You're In the Deep Dark Place

People

About Awesome Support People

How to Get Support People

How Many Do You Need?

Feeling Iffy on Reaching Out?

How to Train Your Awesome People

How To Be an Awesome Support Person

Welcome!

The Person You're Supporting is Normal

Sit, Ask, Listen

Avoid Giving Advice

Check in Consistently

Make Reaching Out Positive

Know What to Expect

One Big Conversation

Other Things

Keep Checking In

Trust Each Other

Other Support People

Take Care of Yourself

Bring the Energy

Using Your Support People

How to Use Your People

Get Help Early

Everyone Else

Anti-Support People

Family and Friends

Coworkers and Classmates

Teachers and Bosses

Other Folks

Strangers

The Pros

Professional Help

Competency

Validated Techniques

From a Scary Place

From an Awesome Place

The Long Game

Living for the Long Term

A Funny Thing

Live a Values-Driven Life

Find Your Values Exercise

Never Let Up

Share Your Story

Share What You Know

Be a Support Person

Share Your Journey

Be an Ambassador

Thank You

Resources and Research

Awesome Resources

Finding the Latest Research

From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews