Say goodbye to dreary shades of black and white and start seeing the world for the prism of color it is with this refreshing and creative guide! In a unique combination of art, activities, and uplifting anecdotes, 21 Ways to a Happier Depression leads you on a hands-on journey to personal growth. Getting you out of one of "those moods" can be as simple as: • Making the bed • Nurturing a plant • Painting shapes in loops and colors • Breaking down your work into a to-do list • Getting a fresh new look with some different décor, or even a haircut! Inspired by his own life experience, Clinical Psychologist Seth Swirsky gently encourages positive introspection through honest and practical advice. With this book, a happier depression is literally in your hands!

Are you tired of that lurking sense of depression? Tired of waiting around for happiness to find you? Are you ready to learn how to love your life? Ready to take action to become a happier person? Happiness doesn't have much to do with money, achievement, or possessions because plenty of people have all three and are still not happy. In this guide we'll approach happiness not as something you have but as something you actively do each and every day. The 21-Day Happiness Challenge will help you: - Understand and apply the key principles of living a happy life in an easy, step-by-step way - Love and accept yourself just the way you are nowLet go of things, thoughts, behaviors, and people that do not serve you anymore - Realize that "huffy fluffy" concepts such as forgiveness, gratitude, and mindfulness are actually extremely powerful - Develop a daily routine that significantly boosts your happiness - ...and much more! Learn how to love your life and become a happier person today. Are you ready to take the challenge? ----------------- Keywords: happiness for beginners, happiness without cause, happy place, happiness hypothesis, happiness trap, happiness is free, happiness notebook, happiness book, happiness is the way, happiness challenge

The 21-Day Happiness Challenge, the fifth book in the 21-Day Challenge series! Are you tired of that lurking sense of depression? Tired of waiting around for happiness to find you? Are you ready to learn how to love your life? Ready to take action to become a happier person? True happiness is an "inside job". Look at a happy person's life and you don't see any magic or unicorns. There's nothing in them that isn't also in you. Though external realities can certainly play a role, happiness doesn't spring from what you have, what happens to you, the situation you are in, where you are, or anything else. In fact, if it was easy to be happy, this book would be a very short one! Happiness doesn't have much to do with money, with achievement or with possessions, because plenty of people have all three and are still not happy. In this guide, we'll approach happiness not as something you have, but something you actively do, each and every day. The 21-Day Happiness Challenge will help you to: * Understand and apply the key principles of living a happy life in an easy step-by-step way * Love and accept yourself just the way you are now * Let go of things, thoughts, behaviors and people that do not serve you anymore * Realize that "huffy fluffy" concepts such as forgiveness, gratitude and mindfulness are actually extremely powerful * Develop a daily routine that significantly boost your happiness * ..and much more inside! Learn how to love your life and become a happier person today!

As a physician who personally suffers from depression, Susan J. Noonan draws on her own expertise and empathy to create a guide for people who suffer from the disease. Explaining the basics of mental health—including sleep hygiene, diet and nutrition, exercise, routine and structure, and avoiding isolation— Managing Your Depression empowers people to participate in their own care, offering them a better chance of getting, and staying, well. Noonan’s depression management strategies draw on the best available educational resources, psychoeducational programs, seminars, expert health care providers, and patient experiences. The book is specifically designed to be highly readable for people who are finding it difficult to focus and concentrate during an episode of depression. Cognitive exercises and daily worksheets help track progress and response to therapy and provide valuable information for making treatment decisions. A relapsing and remitting condition, depression affects nearly 15 percent of people in the United States. Managing Your Depression will bring depression management strategies to people who do not have access to mental health programs or who want to learn new skills. -- Francis M. Mondimore, M.D., The Johns Hopkins Hospital

A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016 “Despair is always described as dull,” writes Daphne Merkin, “when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.” This Close to Happy—Merkin’s rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression—captures this strange light. Daphne Merkin has been hospitalized three times: first, in grade school, for childhood depression; years later, after her daughter was born, for severe postpartum depression; and later still, after her mother died, for obsessive suicidal thinking. Recounting this series of hospitalizations, as well as her visits to myriad therapists and psychopharmacologists, Merkin fearlessly offers what the child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz calls “the inside view of navigating a chronic psychiatric illness to a realistic outcome.” The arc of Merkin’s affliction is lifelong, beginning in a childhood largely bereft of love and stretching into the present, where Merkin lives a high-functioning life and her depression is manageable, if not “cured.” “The opposite of depression,” she writes with characteristic insight, “is not a state of unimaginable happiness . . . but a state of relative all-right-ness.” In this dark yet vital memoir, Merkin describes not only the harrowing sorrow that she has known all her life, but also her early, redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a writer. Written with an acute understanding of the ways in which her condition has evolved as well as affected those around her, This Close to Happy is an utterly candid coming-to-terms with an illness that many share but few talk about, one that remains shrouded in stigma. In the words of the distinguished psychologist Carol Gilligan, “It brings a stunningly perceptive voice into the forefront of the conversation about depression, one that is both reassuring and revelatory.”

It is of enormous value to the layperson, hungry for knowledge about how best to interact and help their loved one face the dreadful ravages of depression."—Nursing Times

The 21-Day Happiness Challenge, the fifth book in the 21-Day Challenge series!Are you tired of that lurking sense of depression? Tired of waiting around for happiness to find you?Are you ready to learn how to love your life? Ready to take action to become a happier person?True happiness is an "inside job". Look at a happy person's life and you don't see any magic or unicorns. There's nothing in them that isn't also in you. Though external realities can certainly play a role, happiness doesn't spring from what you have, what happens to you, the situation you are in, where you are, or anything else. In fact, if it was easy to be happy, this book would be a very short one!Happiness doesn't have much to do with money, with achievement or with possessions, because plenty of people have all three and are still not happy. In this guide, we'll approach happiness not as something you have, but something you actively do, each and every day.The 21-Day Happiness Challenge will help you to:* Understand and apply the key principles of living a happy life in an easy step-by-step way* Love and accept yourself just the way you are now* Let go of things, thoughts, behaviors and people that do not serve you anymore* Realize that "huffy fluffy" concepts such as forgiveness, gratitude and mindfulness are actually extremely powerful* Develop a daily routine that significantly boost your happiness* ..and much more inside!Learn how to love your life and become a happier person today!