Climbing Out of Depression
Published on 19. August 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7459-5181-2 (ISBN)
Description
Being depressed often leaves you feeling paralysed into inaction. Climbing back out of the pit of gloom seems almost impossible. You need help, and that is what this book offers - practical, humane and spiritual help. Sue Atkinson has suffered years of depression herself. She does not write as an expert on depression or as a depression counsellor, but as someone who knows the feelings from close personal experience. As a result, her book contains a varied menu of hints, quotations and illustrations, not page after page of unbroken text. This is a book to dip into as fits your mood and need, making a dependable guide to the climb.
Reviews / Votes
`This is wise stuff, with resonance that lingers on long after it is over, none more than the hope it offers, born of experience.' -- Ann Pilling * The Door *More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
SPCK Publishing
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
271 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7459-5181-2 (9780745951812)
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Person
SUE ATKINSON is a writer, teacher, mother and former depression-sufferer. She is the author of Building Self-Esteem and Pathways Through Depression and also of several successful books on teaching mathematics at primary level. Her husband is a Church of England bishop near Norwich. They have four grown-up children.
Content
Contents
Foreword to new edition 7
Introduction 15
Part 1: Rock-climbing for Lemmings
1 Instant cures? 18
2 Why rock-climbing? 21
Part 2: How Did I Get Here?
3 Sitting on the rocks at the foot of the cliff 26
4 Finding the cave: ideas for the very bad days 30
5 What is depression? 33
6 What causes depression? 38
7 Being kind to ourselves 47
Part 3: Is Climbing for Me?
8 Someone to talk to 50
9 The 'goodenough' principle 52
10 Strategies for living 54
11 What about professional therapy? 59
12 Preparing for the bad days 62
13 Clarifying our coping strategies 69
Part 4: First Steps
14 How can I get started? 74
15 What preparations can I make? 78
16 Things we need to take 86
17 Life is difficult 89
18 Things to leave behind 97
19 Negative thinking 102
Part 5: Hanging On
20 Getting to know ourselves 116
21 Emotions are OK 119
22 Overcoming fear, worry and panic 123
23 Understanding our anger 128
24 Managing guilt 132
25 Understanding how we see ourselves: our self-esteem 134
26 Boosting our self-esteem 135
27 Understanding the 'losses' in our lives 141
28 Understanding stresses 144
29 Fears 148
Part 6: Falling Off
30 Falling off 154
Part 7: Making Progress
31 Picking ourselves up and having another go 160
32 Using our dreams to help us 168
33 Loneliness 171
34 Reaching the overhang and facing the impossible 175
35 'You'll be glad this happened'? 178
36 Missing the foothold 182
37 Reaching the top 185
38 Now for the mountain! 189
39 On reflection 194
Resources 201
Further Reading 204
Foreword to new edition 7
Introduction 15
Part 1: Rock-climbing for Lemmings
1 Instant cures? 18
2 Why rock-climbing? 21
Part 2: How Did I Get Here?
3 Sitting on the rocks at the foot of the cliff 26
4 Finding the cave: ideas for the very bad days 30
5 What is depression? 33
6 What causes depression? 38
7 Being kind to ourselves 47
Part 3: Is Climbing for Me?
8 Someone to talk to 50
9 The 'goodenough' principle 52
10 Strategies for living 54
11 What about professional therapy? 59
12 Preparing for the bad days 62
13 Clarifying our coping strategies 69
Part 4: First Steps
14 How can I get started? 74
15 What preparations can I make? 78
16 Things we need to take 86
17 Life is difficult 89
18 Things to leave behind 97
19 Negative thinking 102
Part 5: Hanging On
20 Getting to know ourselves 116
21 Emotions are OK 119
22 Overcoming fear, worry and panic 123
23 Understanding our anger 128
24 Managing guilt 132
25 Understanding how we see ourselves: our self-esteem 134
26 Boosting our self-esteem 135
27 Understanding the 'losses' in our lives 141
28 Understanding stresses 144
29 Fears 148
Part 6: Falling Off
30 Falling off 154
Part 7: Making Progress
31 Picking ourselves up and having another go 160
32 Using our dreams to help us 168
33 Loneliness 171
34 Reaching the overhang and facing the impossible 175
35 'You'll be glad this happened'? 178
36 Missing the foothold 182
37 Reaching the top 185
38 Now for the mountain! 189
39 On reflection 194
Resources 201
Further Reading 204