Six Keys to Mastering Chronic Low-Grade Depression

The focus of Six Keys to Mastering Chronic Low-Grade Depression is learning to master the mild but chronic form of depression known as Dysthymic Disorder.

In this book you will learn Six Keys to mastering chronic low-grade depression: Neuropsychological, Behavioral, Relational, Emotional/Spiritual, Cognitive, and Physical.
A series of exercises will help you to personalize the Six Keys so that they apply to your unique situation. Tables provide a helpful summary of how each key should be implemented.

What's in the Toolkit?
Six Keys to Mastering Chronic Low-Grade Depression will teach you:

•     How your brain can fool you into thinking you're depressed
•     How to tell whether you are experiencing normal ups and downs or chronic low-grade depression (Dysthymic Disorder)
•     How low-grade depression differs from Major Depression
•     How rehashing your failures makes you feel hopeless and helpless
•     Three techniques for monitoring your slide into depression
•     What makes you vulnerable to chronic unhappiness
•     How a network of healthy relationships can safeguard you against depression
•     To identify behaviors that will help you to be more successful at work, in your relationships, and with your family
•     How mindfulness meditation helps you to get in touch with the present moment and    perceive your feelings and thoughts objectively, understand what is and isn't working in your life
•     That what you tell yourself about an event, how you frame it in your mind, strongly influences how you perceive that event and that some explanations directly contribute to depression
•     How tension in your body feeds back to the brain
•     How exercise helps you to turn off the fight or flight response
•     To develop your inner personal trainer who reminds you every day to use the tools that you've learned in this manual