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"Probably the best self-help book on depression I’ve ever read." — Joe Rhinewine, Director and Psychologist, Portland Mindfulness Therapy
Funny, insightful, and relentlessly honest, The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression is the manual for life with depression that everyone should have been given. It's the toolbox you need to build a life you love.
The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression covers day-to-day truths like how food, sleep, and sex get weird and practical insights like how to handle social relationships. It delves into the deep dark places and talks about how to survive the suicidal thoughts that can come with the worst days of depression.
Steven Skoczen writes with the no-nonsense style and genuine empathy of someone who’s lived with depression and his bite-sized chapters are funny, irreverent, and always helpful. Whether you deal with depression or know someone who does, this is the self-help book you need to guide you and your loved ones into a value-filled life.
The No Bullshit Guide to Depression will hand you the tools to...
Spend your limited energy in ways that will help you gain more energy
Let yourself off the hook (sometimes!)
Spot a depressive episode before it gets bad and de-power the harmful thoughts
Use research-backed techniques to reduce symptoms
Analyze your bad days...and your good ones
Take charge of your mental health
Know someone with depression? This book is for you too. It contains tools to help support your friends, family, child or spouse through all the stages of their depression.
"Kitchen-table readable and insanely good. I don’t know anyone who’s writing about this right now who has such a deep toolbox." — Marny Lombard, Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention
Review
"Probably the best self-help book on depression I've ever read."
-- Joe Rhinewine, PhD
Director and Psychologist, Portland Mindfulness Therapy
"Kitchen-table readable and insanely good.I don't know anyone who's writing about this right now who has such a deep toolbox."
-- Marny Lombard
Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention"
From the Inside Flap
Praised by everyday people who deal with depression and mental health professionals alike,
The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression cuts through the stigma, and talks clearly about depression.
With quick-reading, information-rich chapters, the book distills down decades of research into everyday language, and gives the big-picture overview that's so often missing in discussions of depression.
It also doesn't shy away from anything.
Covering everything from day-to-day truths like how food, sleep, and sex get weird to practical insights like how to handle all the people in your life, the book leaves no stone unturned.
It even delves openly into the deep dark places, and talks through how to survive the suicidal thoughts that can come with the toughest days of depression.
Throughout the book, Steven writes with a clear, no-nonsense style and the genuine empathy of someone who's lived with depression.
His passionate, funny, and irreverent approach gets people talking, and pulls depression out into the light.
Whether you deal with depression or know someone who does, this book will help you get through its visits, and on into a value-filled life.
About the Author
Steven Skoczen is a writer, coach, artist and entrepreneur who's lived with depression his entire life. His work is focused on humanity -- how we can become the people we want to be, and create a world we want to live in.
His online writing about depression, life, and meaning has been read by over a million readers in 193 countries and across six languages.
He is currently on a multi-year journey, slow-traveling the world, but comes home to Paris, France.