How to Tell Depression to Piss Off
40 Ways to Get Your Life Back
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Joe Jameson
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James Withey
About this listen
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 audiobook 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 audiobook can help and provide some laughs along the way - hooray! - because you really need it with this bloody illness.
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- Rich Moog
- 17-01-23
A wonderfully humorous take on a very serious subject
For anyone suffering depression this is a must — also for anyone trying to understand this illness too.
Superbly written and informative with great dollops of humour.
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- Pauline
- 28-12-20
Recommend
This was very easy to listen to especially when going through depression. It is very down to earth and relatable. It does not patronise with all the usual repetitive advice nor is it complicated by long medical terminology. I highly recommend and will listen to this again when I am struggling.
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- Nigel Shaw
- 23-07-20
Watch out Depression, we're coming back fighting.
This book is a fantastic go-to compendium of well-written real life experiences of trying to manage the horror that is depression. The author makes the subject of coping with depression in as lighthearted a way as is possible an accessible thing. There is no magic-bullet or cure to be had, but through years of his own experience with depression Withey is able to effectively share some of his approaches that helped him, and I'm sure can help us all, tell depression to Piss Off. Thank you.
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- Steve Winfield Tracey Winfield
- 29-07-21
Great insight into living with depression
Down to earth, funny and sad.
If you are suffering with depression it's a great insight into some of the myths and thoughts that you hear.
If you are looking to understand how someone with depression thinks it's a must read.
Love the structure of the book so you can dip in and out of the different chapters and as James says not everything will work for you.
Highly recommend
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- Alex B.
- 08-11-20
Should be prescribed at the Doctors.
This should be essential reading for anybody with depression. This is written by somebody that understands what it is because he's lived it. Not all of the 40 suggestions will be right for you but even then the ideas contained within are really helpful.
I'm almost 10 years past the worst of my depression but I still have little "lapses" every now and then and I feel like the information contained within could really help the next time. If you, or somebody you know has depression, listen to this. It could save your life, or help you to understand what they're going through.
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- Aaron E
- 28-06-22
champion you
horrendous. sounded like a corparate new colleague handbook. (exactly the world that lead to me download this book). champion you....noooo take it away.
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