Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You - Richard O'Connor

According to psychotherapist Richard O'Connor, depression, like heart disease, is fueled by numerous and interconnected factors: hereditary, physiological, and environmental. O'Connor focuses on an extra component that is often overlooked in this refreshingly practical book: our own behaviors. You unwittingly become experts in depression. You learn how to conceal it and work around it. You may even accomplish great things, but it will be with constant struggle rather than satisfaction. You deny yourselves of true recovery, deep joy, and healthy emotion when we rely on these strategies to get through each day.

"Undoing Depression" teaches us how to replace depressed behaviors with a new set of skills that are more effective. We already know how to "do" depression, and we can learn how to undo it as well. O'Connor provides new hope—and a new life—to depression patients with a truly comprehensive approach that synthesizes the best of the different schools of thinking on this agonizing disease.

Pros:

• holistic approach
• helps with understanding the disease in others

Cons:

• repetitive