Jess Miller's 'We're All In This Together' has helped many people get themselves through stressful and depressive periods in their lives.
Jess outlines how we gradually get battered down by the system of life we live under until we finally cave in and reach the darkness of depression, but that this is a normal place for human beings to find themselves in. After all each of us has a different level of resistance to stress so it's hardly surprising that many of us succumb to its battering and become depressed.
Once we're in the darkness though there are things that we can do for ourselves to help us find our way back to the light.
Jess gives you twelve easy yet powerful self-help therapies, his 'Neil Armstrongs' being one small step that becomes a giant leap away from the darkness of stress, tension, loneliness and depression.
These easy yet powerful self-help therapies get you to slow everything down that is going on in your life and do things for yourself whilst truly appreciating what you are doing. They stop you being reactive to the things that have made you stressed and depressed and you become proactive for yourself in simple ways that push the 'noise' going on in your life away so you can enter a period of calm in which your mind and body can start to mend.
For people who are all up and together, rushing through their lives utterly convinced they are living the right way these therapies may seem trivial, but for someone who is hurting in the darkness of depression and whose life has become surreal they are of real value.
By understanding the stressful descent into depression, what it's like when you're there, how you've joined countless millions of human beings who go through this experience and the things you can do for yourself to help you find your way back to the light, you will be giving yourself every chance of making that journey and returning to a much happier life.
This book is not written for those suffering from bipolar or manic depression, although many of the symptoms and their effects are the same, rather it's for everyday people who are existing under extreme stress or feeling really down, giving them the proven therapies Jess used to bring himself back from the darkness.
Book excerpt:
NEIL ARMSTRONG 2 - THOUGHTLESSNESS
'It is important for you to accept that you cannot do what you did before. You may be able to do those things again one day, but right now your fractured consciousness cannot take more than one small step at a time.
So here is another small step:
You do whatever it takes to find somewhere quiet to sit and relax undisturbed and then close your eyes and try to banish all thought from your mind so that you can simply drift in a panacea without a single, solitary thought entering your mind.
This is hard to do when you are in the darkness with your mind racing and careering around as a response to not being able to function properly and at first you might find this exercise nigh on impossible.
When I first tried to do this I was in the darkness and it was not two seconds before a thought entered my mind.
Today I can hold that drifting, thoughtless state for about as long as I want, which is interesting considering that for many years my teachers wrote on my school reports that this was precisely what I was brilliant at doing in class.
But if you are able to manage just a few seconds of thoughtlessness and then practice at extending that amount of time, you will find your consciousness thanks you for it.
It thanks you for not having to work at all, not having to continually proc
