Description
Book SynopsisDepression 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
Trade Review
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 *
