Overcoming Depression One step at a time: Addis & Martell
Overcoming Depression One step at a time Part 1 Understanding Depression Introduction Read a chapter a week and do the exercises, this will take 8 weeks. 25% of people will experience depression in their lifetime and depression has trebled since WW2. Maybe this is because of a depressogenic society we rely more on technology less on each other and have become alienated and isolated, button pushers. At work we are human resources, to be played like a game of chess, and we live in nuclear families divorced from our extended families. End jobs, relationships, losing loved ones, moving house, all put you at risk of depression. Chapter 1 How depression works Depression rarely has one cause, its complex, and it isn’t necessary to determine the cause to end depression. With chemical imbalances it isn’t clear if depression causes the chemical imbalance, vice versa or a combination. The quickest way to remove an influence from the past is change how you live in the present. Medica...