Have you struggled to understand depression—in yourself, in a close friend or family member, or just in the people you observe around you? Have you ever wondered, in vain, what had caused your depression, what sinister process took over your mind, and what you could do to cure or overcome it? Or did you wish you could know what caused another person’s depression, wished you could read what that person was thinking, and felt completely helpless about what—if anything—you could do to help them? Has all the information you found on depression seemed utterly shallow, unsatisfying, or irrelevant? Well, this book will give you the answers, knowledge, and in-depth understanding of the psychology of depression that you have been searching for, but couldn’t find. Because it isn’t available almost anywhere else. In Depression and the Immature Romance, the author, humanistic psychologist, and expert on depression Roman Gelperin will teach you all about the little-known causes, types, and unseen inner psychology of depression. You’ll also learn what things cure depression, which cures to pursue for different types of depression, and the ways you can help yourself and the people around you. Having personally experienced depression, consumed all the best literature and research on the subject, and for a year-and-a-half even dated a girl with a long history of depression while writing this book, the author weaves introspection, interpersonal observation, and cutting-edge research into a masterful and eye-opening narrative explaining depression. This book tackles a classic psychological paradox, first noted by Freud: Why does a loving relationship between two mature adults normally lead, after its breakup, only to regular, healthy sadness; while an ambivalent, love-hate relationship between two adolescents, or those with the mentality of adolescents, more often end in a pathological, self-hating depression? Diving into his own experience of depression, caused by the breakup of his first adolescent relationship, the author decisively answers this question. With unreserved honesty and rigorous detail, he reveals the cause, mental processes, and surprising cure of his own depression. And he takes concrete examples of real individuals who also identified the cause, underlying psychology, and permanent cure of their depressions, to give you a groundbreaking new understanding of the full range of depression in general. This book covers the following: - A detailed overview of what’s currently known about depression - The nature of the emotions and cognitive elements involved in depression - A surefire formula that causes depression - Cases in which depression is an appropriate reaction - The different types of depression, and the remedy each requires - Depression as an adaptive function in animals that possess social status - Psychedelic drugs as a new, powerful treatment for certain types of depression By the end of this book, you’ll have a rich understanding of depression; have greater awareness, control, and insight into your own mental processes; and have a good sense of what another person is going through when they become depressed. You’ll also know highly effective ways to prevent depression in yourself and others, how you can provide genuine help to a depressed friend or relative, and how to repair your own mental processes when they go wrong.

Some love stories aren’t meant to last Stella lives with depression, and her goals for junior year are pretty much limited to surviving her classes, staying out of her parents’ constant fights and staving off unwanted feelings enough to hang out with her friends Lin and Katie. Until Kevin. A quiet, wry senior who understands Stella and the lows she’s going through like no one else. With him, she feels less lonely, listened to—and hopeful for the first time since ever… But to keep that feeling, Stella lets her grades go and her friendships slide. And soon she sees just how deep Kevin’s own scars go. Now little arguments are shattering. Major fights are catastrophic. And trying to hold it all together is exhausting Stella past the breaking point. With her life spinning out of control, she’s got to figure out what she truly needs, what’s worth saving—and what to let go.

Predestine Romance is a love story of a wealthy family's Christian daughter falling in love with a poor farm boy at their senior prom. He battles the Great Depression to become eligible to marry the girl in a small town's caste society. In a dream she tells boy God's voice appears and ordain they become husband and wife. Despite sweetheart's mother forbiding dates with the boy, they enjoy secret meetings. While working on a yacht for a year's round-the-world trip, the boy writes mother he dances with yacht owner's daughter. Christian sweetheart gets depressed reading letter and allows mother to invite her old boyfriend for dates. Soon mother plans big wedding for daughter to marry old boyfriend. Three days before wedding, daughter leaves home at midnight to avoid the wedding. Daughter says she doesn't love the old boyfriend. The shock causes daughter's mother to suffer light stroke which damages her brain to the extent she has hallucinations. She is placed in a hospital for therapy. Farm boy avoids romance with yacht owner's daughter and returns home to hugs and kisses from sweetheart. Mother is still in hospital and sweetheart's father arranges for their wedding.

Learn to Take Control of Your Life, Through an In-Depth Understanding of Motivation: What is motivation? Why do we feel totally paralyzed to do certain things, and utterly unable to quit others? Too many people conclude, falsely, that they are just lazy, or lacking in willpower. But what they lack is a correct understanding of their own minds, of motivation, and the way that it operates. This book is a self-help manual and a rigorous analysis of the psychology of motivation. It will teach you to stop procrastinating, kick your addictions, circumvent laziness, take control of your actions, and achieve your goals, by thoroughly understanding the way your mind works. In it, you’ll learn: What is the nature of motivation, on its deepest psychological levelWhy addiction and procrastination are two sides of the same coinWhy there’s no fundamental difference between a physical and psychological addictionWhy willpower is rarely the solution to anythingWhy and how emotions motivate You’ll also learn fifteen powerful strategies for motivating yourself, why they work, and how to apply them to your own life. By the end of this book, you’ll possess all the tools you need to take firm control of your daily existence.

Learn the Single Most Powerful, Enlightened, Correct Method of Thinking: Your brain is a far, far more powerful computer than any that’s ever been built. And your conscious mental processes—the methods by which you think, acquire, and organize your knowledge—are that computer’s software. Your mind comes with default software—your instinctual method of thinking—which fails, however, to unlock even a tenth of your full intelligence. If you’re like most people, your software has never been upgraded—and you’ve ended up feeling unhappy, ineffective, and full of uncertainty, because your method of thinking falls short on the tasks needed for living, working, and analyzing the world. You have the ability to upgrade your software, by consciously learning a new and enlightened method of thinking that unlocks your mind’s fullest potential. This method is called free-thinking; as opposed to the rigid, categorical thinking that is your default software. This same method has been discovered, independently, by some of the world’s greatest minds—by leading lights as diverse as Albert Einstein, Abraham Maslow, and Bruce Lee. This book will teach you what that method is, and how you can acquire it—and how the author himself came to discover it through pursuing mastery in the discipline of poker. As an added bonus, it also reveals how the legendary martial artist, Bruce Lee, came to discover it by the same path. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned one of the greatest secrets to human happiness, productivity, and self-actualization: the correct method of using your mind.

Have you struggled to understand depression-in yourself, in a close friend or family member, or just in the people you observe around you? Have you ever wondered, in vain, what had caused your depression, what sinister process took over your mind, and what you could do to cure or overcome it? Or did you wish you could know what caused another person's depression, wished you could read what that person was thinking, and felt completely helpless about what-if anything-you could do to help them? Has all the information you found on depression seemed utterly shallow, unsatisfying, or irrelevant? Well, this book will give you the answers, knowledge, and in-depth understanding of the psychology of depression that you have been searching for, but couldn't find. Because it isn't available almost anywhere else. In And It Was All Your Fault, the author and humanistic psychologist Roman Gelperin will teach you all about the little-known causes, types, and unseen inner psychology of depression. You'll also learn what things cure depression, which cures to pursue for different types of depression, and the ways you can help yourself and the people around you. Having personally experienced depression, consumed all the best literature and research on the subject, and for a year-and-a-half even dated a girl with a long history of depression while writing this book, the author weaves introspection, interpersonal observation, and cutting-edge research into a masterful and eye-opening narrative explaining depression. With unreserved honesty and rigorous detail, Roman reveals the cause, mental processes, and surprising cure of his own depression. And he takes concrete examples of real persons who also identified the cause, underlying psychology, and permanent cure of their depressions, to give you a groundbreaking new understanding of the full range of depression in general. This book covers the following: A detailed overview of what's currently known about depression The nature of the emotions and cognitive elements involved in depression A surefire formula that causes depression Cases in which depression is an appropriate reaction The different types of depression, and the remedy each requires Depression as an adaptive function in animals that possess social status Psychedelic drugs as a new, powerful treatment for certain types of depression By the end of this book, you'll have a rich understanding of depression; have greater awareness, control, and insight into your own mental processes; and have a good sense of what another person is going through when they become depressed. You'll also know highly effective ways to prevent depression in yourself and others, how you can provide genuine help to a depressed friend or relative, and how to repair your own mental processes when they go wrong.

The study of and interest in adolescence in the field of psychology and related fields continues to grow, necessitating an expanded revision of this seminal work. This multidisciplinary handbook, edited by the premier scholars in the field, Richard Lerner and Laurence Steinberg, and with contributions from the leading researchers, reflects the latest empirical work and growth in the field.