A simply written and practical guide on how to get up when you feel down. A professional psychotherapist explains the techniques he has developed in his private practice--techniques by which anyone can overcome depression.
Written in a free and easy, thoroughly readable style, this is a guide to using the methods of Rational-Emotive Psychotherapy (RET) on oneself. Dr. Hauck explains to the reader that hundreds of thousands of people have been trained to be neurotic and can retrain themselves not to be. How? "By considering depression as a subject of study just as you would geometry," and then by learning new ways to think about people and events.
In fast-paced story-filled chapters he shows the reader the three main reasons for emotional depression and what he can do about them. The first reason is self-blame ( the sufferer hates himself for doing things wrong); the second is self-pity (the belief that one does not deserve unfair treatment in this world); the third is other-pity (the belief that we should be terribly upset over other people's problems). Depression is a normal problem, says this experienced counselor, and best of all it is a problem that anyone can learn to overcome! Fie makes the task simple and challenging.