The Truth About Depression And How You Can Beat It

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The book your doctor will not want you to read - but one they should all read!

My Book, but not just any book but one that charts my actual experiences as they were happening, so it is 100% pure original content based on what I have gone through and how I came out on the other side. It is a very personal and emotional journey and you will read just what I had to go through to get any sort of help and the eventual anti-climax when I got there.

You get to read of my feelings as I dipped down to the very edge of despair and how I had to continually battle to keep my sanity intact. It shows that if I can do it, then you can too.

At the time of writing this, I am going into the 19th week of being under the doctor and it is only through my strength of character and determination, that I have managed to survive and the fact that I have had no choice but to help myself because there was very little other help available.

My book shows ways in which I did so, and was written in the hope that it will help you also. I answer

the many questions that you have probably been asking yourself, with a fair amount of controversy thrown in for good measure.

You will read of the only one person who was the most help of all and how I had to almost totally rely on them and how my dignity and self-respect just flew out of the window in my quest just to be able to get through one day at a time.

Here are the chapters which are all interspersed with updates as to what is going on with my life and how I really can empathize with the way that you are feeling.

You will not only be shocked at the side effects of certain medications but at the interaction with other medications. Read how it could have been dangerous for me if I had taken the two lots of tablets at the same time that I had been prescribed.

Introduction

This tells you how I came to write this book

1. The Truth about Depression and how to beat it

Learn all about the causes of depression, what you can do to help yourself, and what I did

2. Discover the signs of an anxiety/panic attack

I did not even know that what I was having was anxiety and panic attacks. You will get to read of all the signs and what you can do to help yourself.

3. Have you got stress, and how to deal with it

Depression, anxiety/panic attacks and stress are so closely related with some of the same symptoms - you get to know exactly what you are suffering from without having to wonder, as I did. Read the symptoms of stress, what you can do to help yourself, and what I did also.

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Depression (a condition and mental illness)
Anxiety/Panic attack (through your own feelings, behaviour & thinking (repressed)
Stress (the way you react to a situation)

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4. Exposed - the serious flaw in the UK N.H.S.

There is just not enough being done in the UK to help people suffering from such illnesses. You will read how practices were not put in place in my own GP's surgery and how I had to literally beg to be able to speak to somebody.

5. Are you concerned about antidepressants -
are there other alternatives

You will find, as I have done, that - if you go to your doctor's surgery, then the likely outcome is that they will prescribe anti-depressants. My research has shown that these do little to counteract the symptoms of an anxiety and panic attack. This chapter shows that there are quite a few over the counter health tablets that you can take, one especially, that has been proven to be far more beneficial than pharmaceutical anti-depressants.

6. The secrets of how you can stop those thoughts
pounding through your brain

Like me, you have one thought leading to another pounding through your brain and you can do little to stop them. Learn of some of my 'tricks' that can help you and also how my desperate feelings almost drove me completely over the edge. I know exactly how you feel.

7. The key to ‘feel good’ foods and how they can help

There are foods that can help and I am sure I do not need to tell you that if you eat rubbish then you will feel like rubbish so a healthy diet is a must. I list comprehensively - all the foods that can help you keep a healthy mind and body and even give you examples of some of my own meals.

8. The simple truth of how you should not put up with
stress in the workplace

It was because I had put up with two and half years of stress in the workplace that I nearly ended up with a nervous breakdown. You will learn all that I went through and also the signs of stress that you should look out for in your own workplace, the causes, and even the illnesses that could transpire if you do not address the issue.

9. How stress can double the misery of hot flashes and
cold sweats during the menopause

My doctor did not know what medication to prescribe for me because you can get hot flashes and cold sweats from anxiety/panic attacks also. This chapter will really open your eyes to the menopause. You get to learn of all the symptoms and the different ways in which you can help yourself - from massage, aromatherapy, homeopathy and even acupuncture. I list the many alternative health tablets that are also available to help you and also foods known to help during the menopause. Read how I 'caved in' to HRT patches and how quickly they had a very bad effect on me resulting in a biopsy, and a scan at the hospital having to be booked.

10. Countdown to the long awaited appointment

I had to wait 16 weeks and a third visit to the triage in the GP's surgery before I got referred to a specialist in mental health. You get to read how I tried to cope day by day whilst I was waiting for this appointment and how I nearly did not make it, and how it was a complete anti-climax and why. I even quote from the very personal report and my diary entries - and the bad effect that it had on me causing me to quickly go downhill and be left in limbo where I have been ever since.

Summary & conclusion

This sums up all that we have learned on the painful journey that we travelled on together.

My little tips to keep down at mouth lines at bay

Two little exercises for you to try and keep all the frown lines away.

This book is 104 pages long, packed with useful information whilst also charting my very emotional journey where I not only learned a great deal about myself, but also ways in which I had to help myself, in turn - enabling me to get you through it as well. I have also done a lot of research to further assist us both on our painful journey.

The book has been written so it just needs 'fine tuning' before I can bring it to you. It was written in less than 3 and a half months and finished on 27 November

I hope you enjoy reading it and, most of all, it helps you so you do not have to go to the great lengths that I had to.

Update: 3 Feb '09 This is week 28 of being under the doctor - this is further confirmation that you can do it, as I have had to - and my book will show you how.

Exciting News! I am just checking my book as it is going to be submitted to a publisher! so you will be able to order this book in physical form also. I had a UK and US firm fighting to publish this story, and after very careful consideration I am going with a UK publisher whose main office is in the US anyway so it will be widely available there, and all over the world aswell.

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Bonnie

The Truth About Depression and How You Can Beat It

GMail: howtobeatdepression@googlemail.com

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