Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You Free Audiobook Download by Richard O'connor

Anxiety and depression are serious mental health issues. They can cause people to withdraw from life, not enjoy the things they should, suffer from social anxiety, and limit their activities. These emotions can be particularly difficult to deal with when you're also feeling physically sick. Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You by Richard O'connor helps those who are suffering to find the help that's best for them.

Depression is a disease that can limit your life, destroy relationships, cause low self-esteem, and feelings of guilt. Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You by Richard O'connor audiobook download talks about the fact that traditional therapy doesn't help people heal from deep emotional wounds. The author talks about how people are conditioned to believe they need someone else to fix them or they'll never get better. They also discuss how social norms prevent us from talking openly about mental health issues and why this prevents people from getting better.

{Allan Robertson] is a psychologist who has worked with sufferers of depression for over four decades. This book allows readers to learn about the various ways they can undo their depression and the "unseen forces" that are at work in the disease, such as life lessons learned and experienced trauma.

The author of this audiobook, Richard O'connor is a psychiatrist who coined the term "therapeutic nihilism" to describe the idea that therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy not only don't teach people how to live better, but actually make things worse. He argues that instead of therapies, people should be prescribed medication.

Hope is not a strategy for overcoming depression or anxiety. Hope will not give you the control and power you need to feel fully alive, in charge of your life again, and joyous.

"It's been said that the most dangerous thing you can do is start taking antidepressant medication." This was my first thought when I read this quote in the introduction of Undoing Depression by Richard O'Connor. And it shaped my experience with therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and medication.