Decoding Persistent Depression Book Three - Strategies and Tactics

Decoding Persistent Depression #3

by Roger Di Pietro

Decoding Persistent Depression: Book Three – Strategies and Tactics provides an in-depth, graduate school-level examination of how and why long-term depression can rise and remain, but in a more approachable way than traditional textbooks.
Those with chronic depression can be the kindest, most compassionate, accommodating, humorous, attentive, reliable people who experience symptoms when their well-intentioned efforts fail. They can feel powerless, frustrated, and overwhelmed after patiently and hopefully waiting for stubborn others to improve their behavior or for a situation outside of their control to change.
This book explores how psychological symptoms are comparable to biological ones that aid survival and thriving. It explains how depression can be more than just a result of a genetic, biochemical, or social cause, as it can be learned, personality-based, and purposeful, a psychological counterpart to the body’s protective biological immune system.
A detailed investigation illustrates how people unconsciously employ symptomatic strategies and tactics to protect their self-esteem, status, acceptance, and life style by avoiding or minimizing the risk of ridicule, rejection, failure, and abandonment. Understanding how painful symptoms can be functional may illuminate why depression persists as well as what’s necessary to reduce it.

Genres: Nonfiction

296 pages, Paperback

Published October 23, 2020

About the author

Dr. Roger Di Pietro, Psy.D. is clinical psychologist in private practice who has authored Early Recollections: Interpretative Method and Application (with Dr. Harold H. Mosak), The Depression Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Depression, The Anxiety Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Anxiety, the Decoding Persistent Depression book series, and Anger: Psychological Reasons Why It Rises and How to Reduce it.

Reviews

[✨ Anna ✨ | ReadAllNight]

Goodreads Giveaway, NOT TO READ

Crummy offering

[Danny Brzozowski · Rating 1 out of 5]

I received a free review copy of this book through the First Reads program. I have been completely unable to verify this author's credentials, although they claim in the bio on their private practice website that their books are used to "train doctors." I am not sure who the target audience of this book is. The description indicates that this is a graduate level text, which it certainly is not. It is dominated by a casual, preaching tone and a distracting overuse of metaphor that reads like clickbait. Sourcing is inconsistent and decades out of date, most from the 70s and 80s. It doesn't seem helpful for either clinicians or caregivers. Perhaps this is an expanded term paper or thesis written by a graduate student or recent graduate? A clinician who is self publishing to get their name out there? If so, they would likely do better advertising on Psychology Today.

[AL Kepple · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a book that provides examples of how people can use their long-term depression to manipulate people around them.

I'm disappointed, I thought it would provide strategies for dealing with long-term depression.

Since the strategies can be used by anyone, the only thing that makes it depression specific is mentioning depression, I don't see how this book is useful for anyone.

[Kristy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I just could not get into this book at all.

[Carol & Russell · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was hard to put down.