• Living with a Depressed Person

  • How to Live in Peace with Someone Suffering with Depression
  • By: Cindy Help
  • Narrated by: JC Anonymous
  • Length: 27 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (81 ratings)

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Living with a Depressed Person

By: Cindy Help
Narrated by: JC Anonymous
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How to live with someone you care about who is depressed

Cindy Help, the author has helped people all over the world lean how to handle the difficulties associated with interacting with depressed people. The life-skills you need for coping with a depressed friend, spouse, co-worker, family member, boyfriend, girlfriend, sibling, or child are contained within this audiobook.

The wisdom in this book will show you exactly how to live with someone who is suffering with chronic or situational depression.

From the author on dealing with a depressed person:

When a family member, spouse, or friend suffers from depression, they need all the love and support they can get from you. Your care, encouragement, support, and understanding all play a vital role in their recovery. While this is true, it isn't a walk in the park. Living with a depressed person can be very difficult for everyone involved.

If you live with a depressed person and share a fair amount of responsibility in looking after that person day in and day out, it's easy to forget yourself and to neglect your own needs. If this keeps up, you may eventually find yourself burnt out or on the brink of wearing yourself down. Whether you are living with or taking care of a depressed person by your own conscious choice or not is not the issue. What is important is doing your best to deal with it and look after the depressed person while nonetheless knowing how to take care of yourself at the same time. All throughout this ordeal, you must strive to remember that you still matter. Most resources out there focus solely on the depressed person. It's about time someone focused on you.

Get this book while it's being offered at an introductory price, you'll be glad you did.

©2014 Jordy Christo (P)2015 Jordy Christo

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Don't judge, just help!

If you could sum up Living with a Depressed Person in three words, what would they be?

Highly helpful tips

What was one of the most memorable moments of Living with a Depressed Person?

The part about making sure you take care of yourself even if you are trying to help someone that is depressed.

Have you listened to any of JC Anonymous’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have listened to other titles, this one is just as good.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The first part of the book offered a crash course on depression, so it offers up a ton of information that can change how you think.

Any additional comments?

This book is helpful for anyone that wants to learn more about depression or would like to be able to help someone close to them that is suffering.

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A very helpful book on a difficult topic

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There are many books dealing with depression, but this takes a step back and talks to those people who have to live with a depressed person, which can be just as terrible as suffering from depression yourself.

There are two angles that the book looks at depression from. There are tips and advice on understanding the illness, and how you can best help that person. but it also makes a big point of emphasising the fact that you need to look after yourself too. There is no wrong in being a little selfish when you're living with someone who is making your life tough on a daily basis.

I think it's so important to be reminded that it is not all about the person with the illness, your life is of value too and you need to be fit, well and in good spirits to best help the person with depression.

An interesting listen that will certainly be of help to some people.

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Where does Living with a Depressed Person rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Its near the top. I a lot of people I know live with depressed people, so it gives some insight and tools to help them out.

Who was your favorite character and why?

There are no characters, just the narrator and you.

Which scene was your favorite?

No scenes, just a nice information packed audio book.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me cry a little because I was once the depressed person people had to live with. To know what everyone else was going through made me sad.

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Impossible to listen to! Don't even try ...

Read by some kind of a computer - impossible to listen to! I stopped after 3 min....

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Good information, bad audio

Reassuring information, short and to the point. The narration is terrible and robotic but if you can get past that worth the 27 mins to listen to.

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Very very basic info

This book contains commonly known things about depression. While it contains accurate information it is elementary level content

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Don’t waste your time. Get a podcast.

This was so short, I assumed when I was in audible that I was looking at books or I wouldn’t have wasted a credit on this. A few good tips but I could have gotten the same from a quick google search. This should be in the free content section.

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Very short, hard to listen to

Was very short. Narrated by a computer? Was hard to listen to. Not because of content but crxausw how it sounds.

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Good points

Just too short. I wish it went into depth of the issues and gave better understanding.

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Waist of a credit

This was not helpful and very short. It is a lot of what people already know about if you live with a depressed person.

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