Defeating Depression

By Sam Gupta

Defeating Depression is an irreverent and heartfelt look at how we can fight and defeat the disease that is depression. In this book, Sam Gupta explores the various facets behind the illness and offers what has worked for him. Among the topics are:
Famous depressed people and how they overcame the illness
The two different types of depression
Mood altering foods and herbs
Movie scene metaphors for depression
Why you should avoid people who don't understand depression
Diet and exercise tips
The lethality of prolonged depression
Steps and personal anecdotes on what has worked for the author

• Language: English
• Publisher: DayBac Publishing
• Release date: Oct 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386379218

Book preview

DEDICATION

To one very special Yogi student. You know who you are.

Copyright Sam Gupta 2015

FIRST PRINT

I've been there.

So depressed that I did not want to live anymore.

The advice I was given was to pick myself up by my bootstraps. But people didn't realize that my shoes were worn down to the soul.

I was so down in the darkness that it felt like there was nothing that could happen in the world that would make things better.

I truly thought there was nothing to bring me out of the funk I was in. What made matters worse is that a lot of people around me thought the depression was of my own doing.

No one chooses depression. Who would?

My situation was as follows. My longtime girlfriend had broken up with me and found a new beau almost immediately after our parting. But that was okay. I could always find another girlfriend, right?

Then I lost my job. The job I had relied upon for income for twenty-three years had given me a boot in the ass. But I could always find another job. Another place to start at the bottom and work my way up, right?

Then my father died. He dropped dead of a heart attack without warning. And that is when things went black.

I felt like I didn't have a friend in the world. And I didn't know what to do.

And I began going down a dark hole. Each and every day things got worse.

I knew that there were steps I could take to climb out of the hole but it didn't seem worth it. Why bother? My thought processes were that nothing mattered and that life sucked. 

That's the hold depression had over me.

It creates thought processes which discourage you from doing the things that help aid in your recovery. In my case, I never felt up to it, I did not think much of myself and no longer felt the same enthusiasm for the things I once enjoyed.

If you are reading this, you are probably experiencing it yourself or want to help someone who is.

The good news is that it is a disease like any other other. It has parasites which must be destroyed. But with depression, the infection is in the mind itself.

This book is