Freedom from Depression

A Practical Guide for the Journey

De: James S. Gordon MD

Narrado por: James S. Gordon MD

Essential Practices for Lasting Freedom from Depression
The true source of healing from depression comes from within—not from doctors or medications. Yet when depression drains away our vitality and will, how can we find the energy to help ourselves? With Freedom from Depression, Dr. James S. Gordon reveals a new and empowering approach for dealing with this misunderstood condition—a way out of the darkness that helps you restore balance and joy to your life.

Proven Techniques for Navigating Our Way to Wholeness
Through both his personal experience and 40 years of research, Dr. Gordon knows just how serious depression can be. Dr. Gordon challenges the common medical model of depression as a strictly physical disease that is best treated with drugs—instead, he sees it as a wake-up call that our lives are out of balance. Drawing from treatments he and his colleagues have used successfully in places like Kosovo, Gaza, Haiti, and post-Katrina New Orleans, as well as experiences with patients in his US practice, he has created a set of simple and elegant tools for engaging more deeply with our lives instead of withdrawing. Here he offers practical training for using meditation, diet, guided imagery, movement, and more to help us deal directly with our own unique circumstances around depression.

The path to freedom from depression is realistic, hopeful, well-traveled—and filled with unexpected rewards. As Dr. Gordon has seen time and again, we can emerge from the darkness with a deeper appreciation of life's richness and our purpose in the world. With Freedom from Depression, he offers a bold new way to find true healing from this condition—to turn our fears into teachers, renew our body and mind, and reclaim our ability to take joy in life.

HIGHLIGHTS
• The science of depression—dispelling common myths about genes, drugs, and lifestyle
• Antidepressants—taking a hard look at the value and limitations of drug-based treatment
• Neuroplasticity—why our ability to rewrite the brain's neural circuitry empowers us to overcome depression
• Simple meditation practices for balancing the emotions, body, and spirit
• Using self-hypnosis and guided imagery to relieve anxiety and find inner calm
• Diet, movement, and creativity—effective ways to bring a sense of delight back into your life
• The seven stages of the journey to wholeness

Excellent for voice and story

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes it has a lot of helpful,information. It helps also with what can cause depression. Trauma, PTSD, this book is pleasant to listen to and very informative.

Which character – as performed by the narrator – was your favorite?

The author reads the book in such a way that you feel you are taking his course.

Any additional comments?

The authors voice is very pleasant to listen to.

Comprehending ourselves.

Dr. Gordon speaks beautifully to the mind, heart and soul of many thoughtful ways to learn about and gain understanding of ourselves and others. His nature is gentle, thoughtful and sincerely humane.

A Life Saver

I've been dealing with various levels of depression for most of my years. Over those years, I'd find temporary relief through various activities (books, music, art, etc.), but sooner or later you get to a place where you know temporary just isn't good enough as the situation continues to get worse. But where do you turn when modern medicine would rather dope you up than to help you cope?

This audiobook is quite possibly the means through which I can not only save my life, but to actually enrich it on a level I once thought was denied to me. Dr. Gordon approaches this entire situation through the lens of someone who has gone through it himself and has helped thousands of others through it all over the world, in many walks of life. He explains that most doctors write those prescriptions because they're scared to deal with what the patient is dealing with. But most importantly, he makes you realize as you begin this journey... you're not alone, which is invaluable in the quest to overcome.

Dr. Gordon explains depression in plain, non-judgmental language, and he goes through each level of it as someone might guide a person down a dark road with a lantern. There are a number of causes of depression, which he walks through, and there are a number of means for helping to push through and past it. As I listened, I found many of these ideas resonating with me, including concepts I found to be previously repugnant. If you're open to the material, this is an excellent starting point to opening up a new world.

As with any book of this kind, the trick is to actually apply what is learned, and for that reason I'm not only doing that, but I intend to revisit this book every so often so as to reinforce the foundations. I'd recommend the same of anyone one going through this, and I'd recommend those in your immediate circle do so as well. If nothing else, it's another tool in the tool belt to work with.