Your Depression Map: Find the Source of Your Depression and Chart Your Own Recovery

by Randy J. Paterson

Use this breakthrough program to identify the specifics of your depression and map a personalized treatment program that will guide you to lasting wellness. When you are depressed, do you sleep too much or too little? Do you operate in a state of hollow hopelessness ro are you anxious much of the time? Did your depression appear out of the blue, or idd significant events in your life trigger the problem? If you are grappling with depression, you should know what researchers and treatment professionals alike have Depression is a collection of problems, not a single problem. Consequently, there is no single treatment that will help the majority of sufferers. Instead, there are dozens of valuable strategies for overcoming depression, each of them helpful for certain individuals. How do you know which strategies to try? By examining your own depression, identifying your symptoms and the risk factors that seem to have contributed, and then selecting the approaches found to help with each one. In this first-of-its-kind self-help workbook, a depression treatment expert provides concrete, step-by-step exercises to help you identify the origins, symptoms, and important physicalogical and lifestyle components of your depression, and to generate a Depression Map treatment plan specifically for you. The author’s depression treatment program, based on the principles of depression mapping, has been so successful that it has been implemented internationally in four languages. Now you can implement Your Depression Map’s evidence-based approach to understand why depression takes hold in your life, and to chart a personalized path to recovery.

Genres: Psychology, Mental Health, Self Help, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2002

About the author

Dr Randy Paterson (randypaterson.com) is a psychologist and author living in Vancouver Canada. He founded and operates Changeways Clinic, a multiple-provider psychotherapy practice focusing on cognitive behaviour therapy for stress, anxiety, and mood disorders. He is the author of five books (including The Assertiveness Workbook, now in its 2nd edition, a recipient of the ABCT Self-Help Seal of Merit, How to be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use, How to be Miserable in Your 20s, Private Practice Made Simple, and Your Depression Map) and numerous therapy guides and clinician resources. He has taught over 300 workshops on psychological issues, offering programs across Canada, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. His video blog, PsychologySalon, appears at https://www.youtube.com/c/PsychologyS.... In addition to his interests in psychology and therapy, Dr Paterson owns and operates an orchard in the interior of British Columbia.

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first book on Depression workbook that I have come across to really be written for the public. It helps it's readers by "understanding" what theu are feeling and reflects back to them the complexity of Depression. Once I became diagnosed with depression and began treatment, I bgean trying to read everything available, books written for the public and for professionals, but this is the best workbook that I have come across.

I believe that every one who has struggled with Depression will find information in this book that will help them. I have recommended it to all my friends / family who have been suffering as well as my graduate professors for their individual clients.

[Kelly Sudsbury · Rating 5 out of 5]

This journal and hard-hitting book forces you to ask and answer what is really going on in your life - what are the triggers, how do you respond AND how can you change your cognitive approach to grow towards a happy and meaningful life, even while living with depression. A must read for those living with mental health challenges and how to not only survive but thrive with happiness and contentment. I return to this workbook and journal repeatedly and each time reveal more of myself and continue to grow positively.