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Is This Book for You?

• Are you fed up with particular aspects of your life?
• Have you lost the ability to enjoy things that used to give you pleasure?
• Do you wake up in the morning and wonder how you will get through the day?
• Do you feel that your concentration and memory are not as good as they used to be?
• Do you dwell on feelings of failure and hopelessness?
• Does your future seem bleak?

If you answered yes to some of these questions, you are not alone. The blues and depression are surprisingly common in our society. At any on time, one in five Australian adults is feeling down and one in ten is showing more significant signs of depression. In fact depression has been described as the common cold of the psyche.

This book is for people -

• who are dissatisfied with their lives, but don't know what to change.
• who are fed up and blue and can't seem to snap out of it.
• who are interested in learning how to control and prevent unpleasant emotions such as depression, anxiety, loneliness, jealousy and hopelessness.
• who wish to build up their self-confidence and self-esteem.
• who wish to know how to help friends or family members suffering from depression.

By understanding the relationships between your thoughts and your moods, you will see how thinking in certain ways puts you at risk of feeling blue or suffering more intense depression. This book teaches you how to modify your moods by changing your thinking style.

By becoming aware of your thinking habits, you will be able to react more spontaneously to situations. You will have a greater choice in how you react to events instead of being tied to old habits and hampered by unwanted feelings. You will have better self-control.