Depression Books

This book was suggested to me by a person who had just gone through a loss in her family. It is a compilation of short devotions, two or three pages each, journaling the author's illness and faith walk. It can be read from beginning to end in one sitting, or used as a devotional, a story at a time. It is a lovely book, containing the author's own artwork. I will give it often to someone going through a difficult time, but I enjoyed reading it myself. It will have a prominent place on my bookshelf.

A book beautifully illustrated and an encouragement to anyone going through difficult days. This woman was thrown into the pit of despair, but God reached down and touched her and gave her purpose in life even though it seemed all was lost. This is definitely a book to keep on hand as a gift to someone who has given up.

I tracked down this book after googling 'how to forgive a dead person' and finding Dr Raymond Richmonds excellent 'guidetopsychology' site.
you can read the book on the web pages (leave a donation if you got something from it)but i reccomend buying and owning the book.
Basically it is a very clear explaination as to how and why we get angry, and what the mistakes and traps we can fall into when trying to 'escape' or pass off our own anger are.
I learnt i had to let go of 'vindictive silence' (where you do or say nothing but behind the scenes you intend to upset the other party). Dr Richmond is religeous (I am not conventionaly) but he does not blindly impose or indoctrinate, he just makes a tremendous amount of logical, useful analaysis and gives very useful direction.

Anger is a common emotion that one may feel frequently or, in many cases, daily. This book is for anyone who feels even the least bit angry. It provides a step-by-step method that will instruct you on how to deal with your daily and repressed angers, first by helping you recognize and understand them, then by teaching you how to release them in a healthy way. Furthermore, Dr. Richmond illustrates, with clear examples, the points and definitions that help clarify the misconceptions that one may have about forgiveness.

My initial intention of getting this book was not for myself. Yet as soon as I began reading, it caught my attention, and soon I made a discovery: my repressed anger. I put these procedures into practice and passed the book on to some of my friends. They too have found this book to-the-point and very useful in their own particular anger issues.

This book will be appreciated by people who are not seeking hype, but instead are seeking practical, no-nonsense self-help that really works.

For so long I've claimed that a new type of novel could not be written. Sure, good novels, but not a new kind of novel. David Slavitt has proven me--to my great pleasure--absolutely wrong. This novel works in the tradition of Nabokov and Calvino, but it is an entirely new kind of novel. The term "metafiction" is too worn around the edges from overuse to describe this utterly original book.

There is a moment, in the narrator's imaginings, when a stage hand puts down the props he is moving between scenes and addresses the audience. That is the feeling this novel has--absolutely honest, though there is a play going on all around us.

Buy this book. If the critics have any taste, it will become a classic of "experimental" or "literary" fiction (or some such category, if indeed we don't have to create a new one for it).

One of the most prolific, and least appreciated American writers, David Slavitt has written best-selling plot-boilers (The Exhibitionist, as Henry Sutton),political satire (The Outer Mongolian) and Nabokovian delights (Alice at 80, Salazar Blinks). Having climbed so many mountains (he's written more than 60 books of poetry, translation and fiction)he now offers a a more meaningful, coherent and proudly modernist statement about the problem of authority, intention and action, the relationship between fiction and the essay and, finally, the futility of completion, than Samuel Beckett's famed Molloy trilogy.
Aspects begins with Slavitt inventing himself as himself amusing himself. Both the "real" David Slavitt as well as the fictive author come right out and say it: this is writing done for reasons other than pleasing an audience. So, right off, we have the basic 20th century modernist rule, that the source of unique, "original" art is in the individual's discovery of himself, and that art is a physical record of his examination of his relationship to the past, to social orders, to the cultural flow, in other words, to aspects of what he ISN'T.
And yet, as most mid-century "experimental" fiction tried to show, this is rooted in a silly paradox: if everybody did this, it wouldn't be art, would it? Art (and novels) are also qualitative, they demand a degree of selection, the artist must exclude far more than he includes as he marks his esthetic territory. We can argue that what's left out is more important than what's left in, but, when Michelangelo starts chipping off pieces of marble to reveal Moses, it's Moses that we want to see, not the discards, not his frustrating relationships with religious authorities, his sexuality, etc.
Thus, modernist art is part of show business and Aspects of a Novel acknowledges that (by being entertaining, funny, clever and quotable--the title is a fully credited steal from E.M. Foster). Aspects also subverts show business by defying the conventions of what is typically shown. So, as much as it is a record of rumination and self-amusement, it is also an intimate revelation of frustration, despair, pain, selfish cruelty and a great deal of biographic detail that a "real" person could not share socially because this is exactly the kind of thing that is NOT amusing, NOT attractive, NOT inviting, NOT entertaining and certainly does not confirm our hopes for happy endings, virture rewarded, purposeless suffering made noble and meaningful.
And yet, reading the book is great fun, not just for the jokes. Slavitt, like Joyce, assumes his readers are as educated as he is, so some of the jokes might not be apparent if you lack a rudimentary knowledge of the classics and have forgotton some of your college literature survey course. But by calling this a novel and letting the book take shape as it must, it becomes greater than its parts. It is not mere self-amusement, it's not a kvetch, it's NOT about depression, it's what you get when modernism goes as far as it can: a voice speaking, a narrative collage, words on paper that create new experiences regardless of how closely they acknowledge, or subvert artistic expectations.
In other words, Aspects is genuinely, unquestionably and magnificently NOVEL! It's new! There's nothing like it. It's not just a new way of telling old stories, it's also (and here we get the transition to ironic post-modernism) a story about why stories must be told. Slavitt explored similar concepts in his collection, Short Stories are Not Real Life. Here they are introduced again, but in ways that are more interesting, more complicated, more isolated. A stated need for self-amusement, a Quixotic goal of writing a novel that's like no other novel, an acknowledgement that love isn't worth living for and that family is mostly cruelty and inexpressable regret, is revealed in a tale that begins when words begin to slide into themselves, when sounds connect in ways they were not intended, when life becomes both more and less than the author previously believed.

A moving collection of vignettes about life on Prince Edward Island during the Great Depression, as seen through the eyes of a young boy who battled the miseries of starvation and neglect until he was old enough to join the military and escape.

For all of us who only associated P.E.I. with the idyllic works of L.M. Montgomery (of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES fame), this little collection of Gallant's is a very sharp poke in the eye. You are not going to find fond reminiscences of golden summer days and cozy Christmases. John Gallant tells about his worthless father who refused to do any work and a brother with a suspiciously "sore back" who was much the same. There are stories concerning the parish priest who, through his greed and mean spiritedness, made Gallant question if believing in a religion was really worth the effort. Since Heaven, for Gallant, consisted of enough food to eat and a warm place to sleep, why believe in what didn't exist?

Told in simple terms with honesty and very dry humor, this collection will be sure to please short story enthusiasts, as well as anyone interested in Canada and the Great Depression.

For the millions of North Americans who are descended from the Atlantic Canada diaspora (Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick) this book is a treasure!

A century and a half of subsistence livings wrung from the sea and the land, plus large Celtic families, has ensured a constant flow of people from this area out across the rest of the continent.

This is a work of love from a talented son, who put together the stories of his father -- raised in P.E.I. during the depression as a "neglected and starving child" -- into an intensely memorable book.

It touches deeply this Prince Edward Island born heart, and speaks to our common human longing for home and rootedness.

Ms. Carlson has done a sterling job of describing life with her son, Ben. Bright and severely depressed, Ben commits suicide. Naturally this act has a very devastating impact on his surviving family members.

This book is not just about Ben, per se. It is a book about how suicide affects family members, red flags to watch for and other symptoms of severe depression. She does a good job of describing mental disorders other than depression and it is her loving, yet frank portrayal of Ben that the reader sees behind the Iron Curtain of suicide. It is a very moving book that most likely will bring tears to the eyes of readers. It is one that should be read and taken seriously.

Gut-wrenching in parts, but always frank and honest, this account of the life of a young teenaged suicide victim and his struggles is such an important work. "This book brings depression and suicide out of the closet," one other reader wrote, and she's right. There are as many reasons for suicide as there are people on earth, but there are some symptoms worth addressing, and Carlson's book is the guide to them. If you're dealing with a young person with depression, attention deficit disorder, or any type of anxiety disorder, this book is a must-read. Plainly written from the heart of someone who's been there (and who continues to work on these illnesses) "Ben's Story" will stay with you.

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I've read three of Ms. Courtney's Palisade romances and really loved each one. I'll probably look for more. It really makes you want to cry when she finally accepts his proposal.

BETWEEN THE BLOODS is the story of a boy facing poverty and racism as he grows up in the years following WWI. Wayne struggles to understand a world that punishes him for his mixed heritage. Illegitimate and poor, Wayne suffers the abuse of Bill, his one-legged, drunken step-father, who says Wayne is cursed by the Dog Star. And wherever Wayne goes, he finds people determined to prove Bill right. But with the love of his mother, his dog and an assortment of colorful friends, Wayne has good adventures to go with the bad. Follow Wayne through the years as he searches for his identity and finds humor, friendship, tragedy and hate along the way.

ROBERT GREY CLOUD has been many things during his lifetime -- farm hand, door-to-door salesman, store clerk, businessman -- and he can add author to that list. Born in 1912, Robert lived through the times described in this book and his own childhood experiences were the inspiration for Between the Bloods, his first novel. Still seeking new adventures, Robert celebrated his 90th birthday with his first tandem parachute jump. Robert lives in Idaho with his wife of 63 years, Jean.

[Yes, I am related to the author - he is my grandfather]

BETWEEN THE BLOODS is the story of a boy facing poverty and racism as he grows up in the years following WWI. Wayne struggles to understand a world that punishes him for his mixed heritage. Illegitimate and poor, Wayne suffers the abuse of Bill, his one-legged, drunken step-father, who says Wayne is cursed by the Dog Star. And wherever Wayne goes, he finds people determined to prove Bill right. But with the love of his mother, his dog and an assortment of colorful friends, Wayne has good adventures to go with the bad. Follow Wayne through the years as he searches for his identity and finds humor, friendship, tragedy and hate along the way.

ROBERT GREY CLOUD has been many things during his lifetime -- farm hand, door-to-door salesman, store clerk, businessman -- and he can add author to that list. Born in 1912, Robert lived through the times described in this book and his own childhood experiences were the inspiration for Between the Bloods, his first novel. Still seeking new adventures, Robert celebrated his 90th birthday with his first tandem parachute jump. Robert lives in Idaho with his wife of 63 years, Jean.

[Yes, I am related to the author - he is my grandfather.]

I can't say enough good about these CD's. I began having panic attacks and PTS after a traumatic event. As a Health Care Professional and a Christian I felt I should be able to just pray or reason myself back to normal. A wonderful counselor recommended this CD series to me and WOW am I ever grateful. These CD's really helped me to better understand Anxiety, Stress and Depression on a physical, spiritual and emotional level. The Author shares his own touching story and his experience with PTS, depression and anxiety. The techniques and suggestions were very helpful. If you have panic attacks, experience anxiety or even just want to improve your ability to handle pressure, you should definitely buy this series.

This is a 5 CD set series on the topic of depression, anxiety and OCD behaviors. The host Steve, does a really nice job of leading his three special guest through the tough issues of depression, anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It was incredibly helpful to hear four personal experiences with depression, anxiety and OCD. They not only share when and where their behavior started, but also give you steps and truth of how to overcome these behaviors and live emotional healthy as well. I know there are many materials that cover these topics, but I have never heard anything like this before. It is worth the cost. I have purchased a few for friends that are struggling with depression and anxiety. It is a must buy if you are someone you know is struggling with these emotional issues.

Keith Steadman has a way of describing what is going on that is beyond anything that I have ever read, brilliantly written by a genius out of his mind! In a book of 376 pages it is beyond belief that every single sentence is a captivating story in itself. Each sentence is fascinating to read; to Keith, simply running down a hallway to get out of the mental ward becomes "... with the strength of an ox, as well as the dogged determination of a spawning salmon..." his analogies are non-stop, pin-point accurate and utterly fascinating. An absolute joy to read this book, in addition to getting a complete blow-by-blow description of what goes on in a bipolar mind every second of the day! Leading To A Smoke-Free Life, Steve, A Father's Diary: The Ultimate Stop Smoking Book, Quit Smoking Now And Never Smoke Again (Middle_english Edition)

What an insight into the world of a bipolar affected young man! A riveting true story of his first encounter with this two faced illness, allowing the reader to release and realize every extreme emotion involved. Caregivers, medical professionals and sufferers alike can all connect with Keith's unique perspective and positive attitude. A great read with all the right ingredients to satisfy young and old. Very uplifting and informative, and I highly recommend it, well done!!!

Cassy

Much of Erin's writing conveys joy and love, but some is hard, coming from feelings of dread. Every time I re-read it, new thoughts arise, and more respect for Erin's short but intense life. Her death hurt; her writings heal.

Erin Flower's poetry from her early years is charming and delightfully innocent. From her teenage years, it is disturbing and thought provoking. She tries to reconcile her Christian faith with the disorder that is causing her so much mental anguish.

Her poetry is ordered in such a way that the reader is able to perceive Erin's growing feelings that something was not quite right with her. It is very disturbing to realize that medical science had not yet recognized her disorder as a mental illness and that several of the doctors consulted insisted that she stop trying to get attention.

The description of Erin's life, by Phyllis Jean Flowers, adds additional depth of understanding to Erin's conflicts.

I was very moved by the book and felt like I was actually viewing Erin's battle from close-up. I would highly recommend the book to anyone who suffers from Bipolar disorders (manic depression) or has to interact with someone who does.