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How To Tell Depression to Piss Off James Withey

How To Tell Depression to Piss Off By James Withey

How To Tell Depression to Piss Off by James Withey


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Forty tried-and-tested ways to tell depression to piss off and start living your life

How To Tell Depression to Piss Off Summary

How To Tell Depression to Piss Off: 40 Ways to Get Your Life Back by James Withey

Depression sucks, but you don't.

Trying to manage the range of symptoms that depression throws at you is like navigating the dark ocean floor when you are without a torch and don't know how to swim. How do you manage something that feels utterly unmanageable? How do you get through each day when depression is telling you you're a worthless lump of camel spleen? What you need is a guide. A really good one. You need to know what works and what to do.

This book gives you 40 ways to get to a better place with depression. They are born out of the author's personal experience of clinical depression and his many years of working as a counsellor helping people with their mental health. James lives with depression and knows its lies, the traps it makes and how to dodge when it starts spitting bile in your face. Nice, eh?

The ways include:

- Kick your cuckoo. We don't usually encourage violence towards birds, but no cuckoos are actually harmed so don't call the RSPCA just yet. In this chapter you're encouraged to imagine your depression as an external 'thing' (no humans or animals, of course!) and that you can 'kick out', which is great fun.

- Whose voice is it anyway? Spoiler alert! That nasty voice you're hearing isn't you; it's depression. The illness. When you start to recognise its voice you can start swearing back and who doesn't love a bit of swearing?

- Don't listen to the lies. We all tell little lies sometimes, right? But depression is the biggest liar in the whole universe. It makes Pinocchio look like Mother Theresa. Be the lie detector to depression's fibs; call it out on its fraudulent nonsense.

- Do the opposite. Depression will try to convince you to stay in bed, don't go out, don't wash, don't eat, don't phone anyone. Be Contrary Mary and do the exact opposite of what depression tells you because it never has your interests at heart. Plus, doing the opposite feels like you're a rebel, and rebels are cool (see Star Wars).

At whatever point you're at with your depression, this book can help and provide some laughs along the way - hooray! - because you really need it with this bloody illness.

How To Tell Depression to Piss Off Reviews

The most easily understandable book on depression you will ever read. Crammed with sound advice and laughs
Full of ways to hold someone's hope and help nurture them back to good mental health
'I thought I knew a lot about depression, but despite having treated people for it - and suffered from it myself - I learned more as I read [How to Tell Depression to Piss Off] from cover to cover. James has written a book about depression that gives you hope tempered with realism and shot through with wonderful anarchic humour. He knows exactly what it is like to 'feel too much'. He is refreshingly rude about the prissy crap written by many who do not understand depression or who have never experienced it. Yes, depression is a pernicious bugger and it's fine to shout and swear at it. And if all else fails, follow James's advice and get a cat'
This is a very useful book. Personal, honest and accessible, written with humanity and humour -- Dr Lucy Maddox, consultant clinical psychologist and writer
Approaches the topic with a depth of understanding and offers practical tips (and a few laughs too) to help people, no matter what stage they're at . . . this is a timely read that's helpful, considered and deeply compassionate * Woman's Way *

About James Withey

James Withey is the founder of The Recovery Letters project which publishes online letters from people recovering from depression. He is the co-editor of the bestselling book The Recovery Letters: Addressed to People Experiencing Depression. James trained as a person-centred counsellor and worked in addiction, homelessness and mental health services for fifteen years. He lives with depression and writes and speaks about mental health.

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GOR010841590
9781472144522
147214452X
How To Tell Depression to Piss Off: 40 Ways to Get Your Life Back by James Withey
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
20200507
176
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