Break the Cycle of Despair
Brainswitch out of Depression won a 2006 Best Book Award.
If you or a loved one suffer from depression, Brainswitch may be all you need to banish depression for good. You can't simply will yourself our of a depression. It's caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. But brainswitching works! It's a targeted system of simple mind exercises developed from neuroscience research and brain mapping. It short-circuits the pain of depression by disconnecting the message that we are depressed from one part of the brain to another. You can side-step the depression going on in the emotional part of the brain (the subcortex) by taking temporary refuge in the thinking part of the brain (the neocortex) which never contains depression.
Curtiss, the creator of directed thinking and brainswitching, is the first psychotherapist to document the significance to depression of the natural process of pain perception and ways to manipulate the function of the feelings receptor station in the neocortex to get out of any depressive episode as an act of will. It works for insomnia, anxiety, and OCD as well.”
Excerpt
Chapter 1 - What You 've Always Needed to Know About Depression
When you know its working parts, depression will no longer suck you in like a sinking star.
Depression once brought me to my knees. It was the fight of my life. I won that fight and so can you! Most people who seek help for depression want to know two things: Is there something that can stop the torture? And can I do it without drugs? The answer is yes, and yes. All suffering, depression included, can be and should be understood in the larger terms of utilizing healthy brain functions, not just brain pathology. You have probably opened this book because you or someone you love is struggling with depression. You have come to the right place. I am a licensed cognitive behavioral therapist and a certified hypnotist. I worked in a woman 's counseling center for seven years before I opened my own private practice. One of the most important things in my background is that as a young woman in my thirties I was diagnosed with manic-depression, as was my father and brother. It 's now called bipolar disorder but I prefer the original term for its more graphic description. Read More.
When you know its working parts, depression will no longer suck you in like a sinking star.
Depression once brought me to my knees. It was the fight of my life. I won that fight and so can you! Most people who seek help for depression want to know two things: Is there something that can stop the torture? And can I do it without drugs? The answer is yes, and yes. All suffering, depression included, can be and should be understood in the larger terms of utilizing healthy brain functions, not just brain pathology. You have probably opened this book because you or someone you love is struggling with depression. You have come to the right place. I am a licensed cognitive behavioral therapist and a certified hypnotist. I worked in a woman 's counseling center for seven years before I opened my own private practice. One of the most important things in my background is that as a young woman in my thirties I was diagnosed with manic-depression, as was my father and brother. It 's now called bipolar disorder but I prefer the original term for its more graphic description. Read More.
Reviews
"It does work!! ... takes on head first the causes of depression... what it is and how it affects us, and how we can control it" ~ Newbookreviews. com
"...can you shake this negative mood? Yes.... fight back by shifting your brain into high gear." ~ Self Magazine
"...we literally disconnect the message that we are depressed from one part of the brain to another" ~ Chicago Tribune
"When you come out of depression, it is like being reborn into a bright, new world..." ~ Human Resource Magazine
Testimonials
"NEVER read a more profound discussion on this topic" ~ Zoloft Message Board
"...suffered deep depression for twelve years... more than three years since I read Depression is a Choice ... I am cured of my depression". ~ Daliah Rainone
"I've been through it all - drugs, drugs, drugs, more drugs, therapy, drugs, more therapy, group therapy, workbooks, books, drugs, and drugs. After 30 years of depression, this book HELPED." ~ S. F. reader
"...culminating healer of my lifelong depression... this book empowered me... No more pills after about 45 years of pills... so grateful." ~ Barbara L.
"...requires a certain vigilance and effort but worth it." ~ Adam Swartz
Details:
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Healthworks Press; 2006
- ISBN: 0932529542