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Summary: Lacking Professionalism
Review: As a person who has battled depression since the age of 13 (pretty successfully, I will add), I picked up this book on a whim. I basically agreed with the authors until I began to run into opinion based agruements ("No one is genetically programmed to become a homosexual. That is purely myth!" - pg.46), large generalizations ("upper-class people love to see psychiatrists"-pg. 51), and after reading some of the other reviews provided by readers on this site, some purely anti-women sentiments. (See pg. 96 for an easy example of this.)I am not a professional psychiatrist, therefore I cannot agrue the academic basis of the authors' belief systems, but based on my own many years of interest in mental health and spirituality as well as my employment in mental health and behavior modification facilities, much of this book strikes me as being based on less than modern knowledge, and any credibility on the part of the authors is further reduced by their inclusion of the examples above.
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Summary: ~superb analysis of the causes of depressions & treatment
Review: I find this book very effective in explaining the psychology of depression and integrating a Christian viewpoint. It offers hope to the depressed and eliminates hatred. Instead of resenting others for their authoritarian personality or explosive rage, we learn to realize that the person most likely has had a rocky childhood. "Happiness is a Choice" explains the causes of all depressive personalities and allows these people hope to solve their problems.
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Summary: Help can be found if you really want it.
Review: I have been suffering from depression and anxiety for many years and am on medication. This book has helped me understand some of the aspects of what triggers anxiety and the choice I can make to control my responses. A person of faith will highly regard this book. The applications can be useful for every day stress that causes anxiety and mild depresseion that everyone is subject to.
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Summary: This book literally changed my life
Review: I read this book about 18 years ago after my pastor recommended it to me. I was in my early 20's and had been experiencing recurring depresssions since my middle teens. I had been suicidal numerous time (e.g., sitting on edge of cliff more than once). I read this book along with my wife and for the first time in my life realized that I was making choices that brought my depression and that I could make other choices that would lead to happiness. I began making those choices and I haven't suffered from a prolonged severe depression since that time. I have now found out that my entire family for 4 generations suffers from depression. This book helped break this in me and I will share it with other members of my family. I recommend it to anyone suffering from depression and or living with anybody who is.
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Summary: Break Free of Depression
Review: I was embarrassed and ashamed of my lonely, helplessness, and saddness. This book provided not only spiritual but medical answers to questions that I was not will to ask. I did however throw it across the room when I realized that I was truly depressed. God can cure each and every scar that is hidden deep within you, this book was the beginning of my journey back to joy. I am always buying another copy to give to a friend who is afraid to admit to depression. God has the key to the chains that bind you...order and walk forward into joy.
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Summary: This Book Really Works!
Review: When I was told to purchase this book, I thought 'Happiness is a Choice' ... yeah right, like I CHOOSE to be depressed, I don't think soooo! I didn't think the book would be worth while at all. In fact, I thought it might try to brainwash or something. But that is not how it works. It gives you insight into depression. It gave me so much to think about. It gave me CONTROL over my depression for the first time. It didn't happen overnight, in fact it didn't happen until about a month after I finished reading the book. But the concepts put forth in this book were so profound, that I was able to say NO to depression for the first time, and after many many years of therapy and medication.
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