Overcoming Depression

I first read this book over thirty-five years ago. I was really hard on myself back then and would beat myself up mentally every time I made a simple mistake like losing my keys, etc. i worried about what others though about me and generally made myself miserable over the simplest things. After reading this book I started making changes in my thinking.I'm not sure that "Overcoming Depression" is a good title for the book. It should be something like, "Getting Your Head on Straight" I have given this book to a few people and each one has gotten something valuable out of it. This book is full of clear, simple, advice that can benefit anyone.

This is master piece from paul hauck based on Rational emotive theraphy RET.If one wishes to find religious truth in psychology this is the book.Paul Hauck boldly states there are 3 reasons why we can't blame ourselves and others anytime,anywhere.They are stupidity ,ignorance and disturbance.Logically we can't say person and his behaviour are not same due to those reasons.This is exactly what Jesus preached in Bible.It is exciting to know modern thinking and religious thinking go hand and hand here.No Dogmatism.Just Reason and Evidence.This is a heart soother for depressed people could a life saver if one grasps this simple truth.

Dr. Hauck gives a straightforward discussion of what causes depression and how to change one's thinking to reduce or eliminate it. He includes many good examples from his experience as a therapist. I think Dr. Hauck is convincing, motivating, and clear in this book. The book deserves to be reread at least once to get the full impact.

This is definitely a self help book that uses correct wording and psychological hints that help the person who is dealing with depression. Of all of the books on depression, this one is quite outstanding in its ability to unearth the problems of a person who is depressed and to help them overcome it.

Excellent book well worth the read. Ig more the copyright date. The information is spot on just as much today as it was when first published, and will be 50 years from now.

There are two riders to my title.You have to be rigorously self-honest, and actually repeatedly put into practice what Paul Hauck says. and let the new way of thinking become your way of life.I have been using this book for myself and my clients since the early 1980's, and I know that what Paul Hauck tells us has worked for both myself and the clients that I have recommended the book too. I used to (literally) buy the book by the dozen so I did not run out.This is Rational-Emotive Therapy at its most understandable and it's most useable. Paul Hauck has a knack of making the content easily assimilable, and straightforward to put into practice.I met Paul Hauck at the Rational-Emotive Therapy World Convention at Keystone, Colorado in 1990, and found he was a lovely guy, with almost a Rogerian approach to Rational-Emotive Therapy , but still with the cutting edge of an Ellis. David Burns, who was also there, had written a good book on depression - Feeling Good - but the Paul Hauck book is far easier for clients to read and follow.Paul Hauck has written other books with the same receivable style, covering just about all human emotional difficulties, and they are all at the top of their class. Just do a search on Amazon.This book is unreservedly recommended to all who want to minimise their emotional pain when dealing with the difficult challenges of life.

On the very first page of this book, of the preface, the author writes, "This is what I have tried to show in this book: how people make themselves depressed, how they keep that depression alive, and how they can prevent depression in the future." ... and this is exactly what the author focuses on in a concise, practical, straight-forward way throughout this short book. This is a book for people who are willing to be accountable for their life and their happiness - it is a book for people who feel somewhere inside them that they have the ability to make their life the way they want it if they are willing to put in the work.It is not a book about explanations outside yourself that have caused you to be depressed... in other words, it's not about rationalizing and feeling better about being depressed. Although there is one minor exception to that statement: the author recognizes that depression can sometimes be caused by blood sugar problems and relieved by a more appropriate diet... this I have found to be true for me at times, when at other times it is my faulty thoughts causing my depression, as the author explains.This is a typical RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) book and does work even better, I have found, when also read "Overcoming the Rating Game" by Hauck, as another reviewer mentioned as some of the self-blame / self-pity and such are related to erroneously rating our entire being or worth as a person instead of merely rating our actions.If for some reason you feel worse after reading this book, read it again until you actually understand the author and why there is no need to "feel guilty" even if you "are guilty".

She was my girlfriend at the time and we nearly broke up over her jealousy. She had many issues, but the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back was when she asked me to unfriend all my female facebook friends. I initially refused, but conceded only when she agreed to read this book with me as a compromise. I bought two copies so we could read it together. For the first time, we were able to have reasonable and productive conversations about jealousy, possessiveness, our insecurities, fears, etc. We never had another single jealous episode afterwards. We were able to put that behind us and were later engaged. And, I was able to refriend all those girls with her blessing because she was no longer afraid of them coming between us.

REBT（理性感情行動療法、アルバート・エリスの認知行動療法）に基づくうつの一般書。