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Summary: Undoing Depression will be the seminal book on depression.
Review: I'm just finishing Richard O'Connor's book and have been bowled over by the scope and readability of it. I feel sure it's going to be the seminal book on depression. It covers so much! I'm singing its praises. I've found great insights for myself, my family members, etc. When will it be out in paperback? It's so very personal while being very enlightening. Great job, Dr. O'Connor!
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Summary: When you want to enjoy life again, read this book!
Review: I always wondered why everyone else was having more fun than I was. Then I was diagnosed with clinical depression. After medication and therapy I began to understand why I was not happy even though I didn't have a terrible lot in life. When my sister found Dr. O'Connor's undoingdepression web site listing a local appearance, we attended. He was so caring and informative and makes so much sense. The fact that it worked for him and it shows in his manner and his words is constantly reassuring. Even if you've read them all, this book has something valuable to give you.
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Summary: Everyone should read this book.
Review: I never realized how many people had the illness of depression until seeing a TV program with Rod Steiger talking about his own suffering. Reading Undoing Depression, I can see that many problems friends and family members have stem from some form of depression in themselves or in someone they have to deal with. I am a teacher and thought this book would be useful in my understanding some problem teenagers I had in classes. Now I find it helpful every day and everywhere.
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Summary: Undoing Depression got me headed in the right direction.
Review: Everything seemed to be spinning out of control. This book has helped me take a pause, see what I was doing that was causing problems, and provided the tools to begin to undo the bad habits. It also helped me see that sometimes I was not the problem, and gave me the strength to assert myself. Thank you Dr. O'Connor for writing this book.
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Summary: This is the book you've been hoping and searching for!
Review: If you, or someone you love, struggle(s) with chronic depression, this is the book you've been searching for. I've renewed it through the local library so many times it has sort of become silly - except it is such a valuable resource for me. (I'm finally buying it so someone else can have a turn.) This book offers honest, straightforward evaluation, practical behavoral guidance, thorough professional explanation, and heartfelt support that resonates. Try explaining to someone who's never struggled with depression what it is like to wake up and try to convince yourself you can survive another day. What an amazing revelation to realize that life doesn't have to be this way - and how wonderful to be taught techniques to "undo" this sort of behavior. Thank you so much, Richard O'Connor.
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Summary: This is the most compassionate, helpful book on the subject.
Review: Sincerity and knowledge flow from each page, and I more completely understand what my wife has to deal with every day. Separate chapters on how the depressed person interacts within the family, at the workplace, in the community were especially interesting. We have used several techniques suggested in the book and found them helpful in keeping me from being pulled in to my wife's depression. She was so impressed with the change in my attitude that she read the book also and now we both recommend it to everyone we know.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: What makes this so much better than other books on depression? O'Connor writes from the heart as someone who has suffered from depression. He writes about the experience like I've never seen before. And he gives practical advice about how to help yourself. This is a must-have book.
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Summary: An absolute must-read for depressives, families, friends
Review: As a recovering depressive who believes knowledge is a pretty good weapon, I was already really tired of reading work on depression that is preachy, naive, alien to my experience and/or didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. By the time I read the first 100 pages of Undoing Depression, I'd learned more than I ever did in other books or therapy. (And, in the tradition of many depressives, I wept in catharsis. <g>) After O'Connor demonstrates that he knows depression inside and out, he offers real-life, plain-language, non-simplistic strategies for attacking each of the depressive lifestyle traits that continue to face many people who thought listening to Prozac would solve every problem. While I am sorry that O'Connor also struggles with depression, I can't help but think of this book as a gift to the rest of us.In Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield (a fellow depressive if there ever was one) talks about the writers he'd like to call up because he enjo! ! yed their books so much. I'd love to call up ol'Richard O'Connor.
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Summary: I usually hate these books but this was great
Review: Wow, this is a helpful book. The best thing is that he realizes that depression effects, long term (if not forever?), multiple facets of your psyche--behavior, thinking, self-image, relationships, etc., and those have to be systematically addressed one by one and over time. It is the most hopeful yet real book I've read on this topic. When I read, "We end up being depressed because we never learn how to act differently--'But I'm so GOOD at being depressed'...." I said, Amen, brother. We don't need someone else to tell us our self-esteem is out of whack. We need a way to do something about it. Thanks!
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Summary: This is an excellent book.
Review: This book describes depression as an illness, rather than an emotion. It describes clinical depression, but also give the depressed person aids to moving out of his/her depression using steps similar to the 12 step program. It gives one power to heal. The author is psychologist who suffers clinical depression, and he offers both his professional and personal view. The author uses, but clearly explains, medical jargon. This book is support for one who suffers clinical depression.
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