Depressed & Anxious by Thomas Marra
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- Pub. Date: April 2004
- 264pp
- Sales Rank: 48,018
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 2004
- Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
- Format: Paperback, 264pp
- Sales Rank: 48,018
- Series: New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook Ser.
- ISBN-13: 9781572243637
- ISBN: 1572243635
Synopsis
Imagine feeling depressed and drained of energy and initiative while also being overwhelmed with feelings of dread and anxiety about the future. The consequence of this intolerable state of mind amounts to behavioral paralysis, a profound loss of control and quality of life. Therapist call this condition co-occuring depression and anxiety. Clinical research suggests that 60 percent of depression sufferers concurrently experience some kind of anxiety disorder. This book, the first written to general readers about this condition, uses the powerful techniques of dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, to help readers control both conditions.
DBT begins with the assumption that psychological problems are the result of feeling or emotional responses that are in conflict. It integrates a range of theraputic techniques to "tease apart" and resolve the competing internal needs and urges that generate anger, depression, and anxiety. By recognizing these conflicting emotions and forming new expectations, readers alleviate the symptoms generated by these conflicts. The book begins by having readers identify their most painful inner conflict. Then they develop compromises that acknowledge the issue but limit its ability to interfere with their lives-effectively reducing the extent to which their emotions govern who they are or what that are capable of. Exercises focus on assisting readers to become more responsive to uplifitng aspects of their enviroment and tolerant of unavoidable emotions.
A revolutionary, proven-effective model that shows you how to:
- Identify symptoms of mixed anxiety and depression
- Cope with negative and painful emotions
- Calm your anxious mind
- Regulate dramatic mood shifts
- Learn how to soothe yourself
- Increase energy and enthusiasm
- This is the first book to address co-occurring depression and anxiety From a leading expert in dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT-the newest, breakthrough model in psychology today
Thomas Marra, Ph.D., is the president of the Center for Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Monterey, California. He is the founder and clinical director of both the Monterey Psychiatric Health Facility and the Monterey Mental Health Network.
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Depressed & Anxiousby Anonymous
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February 18, 2005: i suffer for borderline personality disorder and am thankfully leading a life worth living after completing dbt therapy. it took me 7 years, 4 hosptialisations, and 3 high schools to realise that these things actually work and help you not just change yourself but your entire life
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February 08, 2005: I have suffered with misdiagnosis, fruitless talk therapy, and then found real hope in a true diagnosis of Bipolar type 2 and ADD, with the right medications. This event was life saving and for those who helped, I am forever grateful. I have found that after slowing down my impulsivity and rapid mood shifts, I was lost regarding what to do with my new and improved brain: I have studied Marsha Linehan's books on DBT, but found them dense and difficult to decipher when the going got rough and I found myself in storm tossed events. What I have needed from childhood onward was a way to see the cascade of event,feeling, belief, and then behavior that has been poorly regulated within me and within my moody, alcoholic, and impulsive extended family. Thomas Marra has elegantly and simply shown the inside of the black box of my earlier life and has offered a path toward positive behaviors and self protective reflexes. He clearly states that those who suffer with mood disorders put an inordinate amount of energy toward a mood state and overreaction to life stressors that perpetuates the misery of an adult child of a painful and dark path. He shows how to gently dissect out feelings toward events and then how my preconditioned beliefs (actual gut level deep instincts) set me up for good or bad outcomes. I wish I had known this when I was a child since I must diligently work this material with several friends and my enlightened wife regularly or I feel overwhelmed with large and then small stressors. His practical and simple and profound exercises cut at the core of my early childhood programming and allow me to find meaning in suffering and real joy when I fight my way out of the paper bag of my life. I will continue to use this book for myself and my family and for those who want something to do with their thoughts and feelings that leads to real life. By the way, I am a family physician, and am thankful to offer those who suffer with mood disorders a true healing balm along with mood regulating medications.
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