Six Keys to Mastering Chronic Low-Grade Depression
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Six Keys to Mastering Chronic Low-Grade Depression
The focus of Six Keys to Mastering Chronic Low-Grade Depression is learning to master the mild but chronic form of depression known as Dysthymic Disorder.
In this book you will learn Six Keys to mastering chronic low-grade depression: Neuropsychological, Behavioral, Relational, Emotional/Spiritual, Cognitive, and Physical. A series of exercises will help you to personalize the Six Keys so that they apply to your unique situation. Tables provide a helpful summary of how each key should be implemented.
What's in the Toolkit? Six Keys to Mastering Chronic Low-Grade Depression will teach you:
   How your brain can fool you into thinking you're depressed
   How to tell whether you are experiencing normal ups and downs or chronic low-grade depression (Dysthymic Disorder)
   How low-grade depression differs from Major Depression
   How rehashing your failures makes you feel hopeless and helpless
   Three techniques for monitoring your slide into depression
   What makes you vulnerable to chronic unhappiness
   How a network of healthy relationships can safeguard you against depression
   To identify behaviors that will help you to be more successful at work, in your relationships, and with your family
   How mindfulness meditation helps you to get in touch with the present moment and   perceive your feelings and thoughts objectively, understand what is and isn't working in your life
   That what you tell yourself about an event, how you frame it in your mind, strongly influences how you perceive that event and that some explanations directly contribute to depression
   How tension in your body feeds back to the brain
   How exercise helps you to turn off the fight or flight response
   To develop your inner personal trainer who reminds you every day to use the tools that you've learned in this manual