couturestar.blogg.se -

Type(s): Feeling Less Alone and Greater Understanding/Research The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon The Best Books on Depression and Anxiety 1.

Much of what you’ll get from these books is an understanding between the two and recognizing when one or the other takes over. So anxiety and depression are like two peas in a pod. Similarly, I felt depressed for a brief period at the beginning of this year and looking back, it turns out I was incredibly anxious about something in my life and the feelings of lethargy/meaninglessness were merely my ways of escaping that anxiety.

After a couple of months of therapy, she discovered that she had actually been deeply depressed. A close friend of mine recently spent the better part of a year constantly complaining of anxiety and stress. In fact, they occur so often together that people will mistake one for the other. Why anxiety and depression together? Well, because they often occur together. One last statement before we get to the books. That’s why I’ve specified the type for each book below. And if the exercises are well-done (usually constructed by a therapist/psychiatrist with tons of experience) you can get good results from these books.Īll three flavors can be more/less useful given the situation/personality/tastes of the reader. And I know that some of these exercises can be highly effective. Exercises/Actions – I’m personally not a huge fan of books that want you to take out a sheet of paper every other page and write a bunch of crap down.“Feeling Less Alone” books tend to be the most emotionally powerful (and best-written) of the three flavors. This has the double-whammy effect of a) reassuring you that you’re not the only one to go through shit like this, and b) that there is hope - if this person made it, so can you.

Usually, the author has suffered from the same problem as you, except that their situation was orders of magnitude worse than yours.

Feeling Less Alone – These books inspire hope.

Building your understanding and knowledge about your problem can often be enough so that you can take care of it from there.

Greater Understanding/Research – These are books that explain what the latest research suggests that’s happening in your life/brain and what the most effective treatments may be.

The three Types of Mental Health Booksīooks about mental health come in three flavors: And this way, when nothing works and the world is still a steaming pile of dogshit, you can blame them and not me. They’re way more qualified than I am to help you through whatever suckage you’re experiencing. I’ve read a lot of books about anxiety and depression over the years and these are some of the best ones I’ve come across. So instead, I will send them here, to these books. And that’s probably not a long-term solution for them. Unfortunately, the only thing I’m qualified to send them is this new care bear emoji I got on my phone. Many of them are looking for a solution or a piece of wisdom or advice. I get hundreds of emails every month from people who struggle primarily with anxiety and depression. You have to deal with it, engage it, wrestle with it a bit and become stronger in the face of it.

There is this thing that sucks, and you’re not going to magically make it go away. In my experience, the best books on dealing with anxiety and depression are the best because they are honest about the situation. And perhaps the only thing worse than the well-intentioned friends and family who implore you to just “get over it” or advise you to “keep your head up” is the fact that there are approximately 3,102 crappy books out there promising to wave a little wand and sprinkle fairy dust in your ass, and everything will instantly be better.