Your Depression Map: Table Of
Contents
Your Depression Map: Find the source of your depression
and chart your own recovery
Randy Paterson, Ph.D.
Your Depression Map is divided into two main sections.
In Part One, Finding the Path, the nature of depression is
discussed. Readers are invited to consider their
 own mood difficulties in terms of a) their symptoms,
and b) the risk factors that seem to have been operating in their own case.
This section concludes with a questionnaire designed to help the reader
identify the areas to target most strongly with their coping strategies.
Part Two, The Journey, presents the strategies themselves. Each
general area is broken down into a series of up to 13 specific strategies.
Readers are encouraged not to try them all, but to prioritize based on the
specifics of their own life and their own mood problem. Part Two concludes with
a chapter on preventing relapse.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Finding the path
Chapter 1. Journeys: The
experience of depression
Chapter 2. The mythology of depression: Eleven
ideas that can prevent you from getting well
Chapter 3. The floating
diamond and the depression map
Chapter 4. Taking stock: The symptom
census
Chapter 5. The origins of your depression
Chapter 6. The
betrayal of the body: Physiological causes of depression
Chapter 7. You in
the world: Your life as a cause of depression
Chapter 8. Charting your
course: Choosing your path out of depression
Part Two: The journey
Chapter 9. Getting ahead by giving up:
Goal-setting strategies to create change
Chapter 10. Hiring help: Who to
consult, and why
Chapter 11. The role of psychotherapy
Chapter 12. The
behavioral realm: Building a sustaining lifestyle
Chapter 13. The physical
realm: Medication and more
Chapter 14. Rebuilding the world inside: Working
with depressive thinking
Chapter 15. The river: Living with emotion
Chapter 16. The situational realm: Living a life that works
Chapter 17. The
social realm: Building and maintaining your social network
Chapter 18. The
meaning of life
Chapter 19. The road ahead: Preventing future difficulties
References
Recommended Reading
Index
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