The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression or The Gift of Adult ADD

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Author: Kirk D Strosahl

There are hundreds of books on the market that try to help you "overcome" or "put an stop to" depression. But what if depression isn't a "thing" to be gotten rid of? What if depression is a behavior that, in the context of the life of someone who is depressed, serves an important function or acts as a signal that something needs to change? Learning to understand the function and interpret the signal of depression would, then, be a much more important goal than finding out how to simply make it go away. Living well even with feelings of depression would be a more productive-and probably more attainable-goal.

This workbook marks a major development in the treatment of depression. Based on the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), an emerging new model of psychotherapy, The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression offers a new approach to depression. The central idea is that feelings of depression are not problems in themselves. What is a serious problem is the avoidance of pleasurable, productive activities. At first depression may set the sufferer up for this avoidance, but sooner or later the process becomes a cycle, and the avoidance behaviors start causing more depressed feelings. When you use the techniques in this book to evaluate their own experiences of depression, they will find out how to make changes that may or may not decrease their depressed feelings but will most certainly enrich and improve their total life experience.

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The Gift of Adult ADD: How to Transform Your Challenges & Build on Your Strengths

Author: Lara Honos Webb

This book about living well with adult ADD is all about shifting perspectives. Not only does it offer insights into life with ADD, but it also works to shift the reader's vision of themselves. The book helps readers by encouraging them to see their ADD symptoms as gifts rather than pointless afflictions. In addition, the approach taps into the positive psychology revolution by offering guidelines for building on strengths rather than excessive focus on patching up weaknesses.

The Gift of Adult ADD reviews the sweeping cultural changes of globalization and the technology of the digital age and how the gifts of ADD provide an almost perfect match for the demands of these cultural changes. In addition to job performance, domains such as interpersonal relationships, parenting, creativity, and connection to the environment are covered.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I Getting Ready to Rumble Chapter 1 "Is It Just Me or Is the Whole World ADD?" 9 Chapter 2 Find Your Sweet Spot 25 Chapter 3 In the Workplace: Now Patch Up Weaknesses 49 Chapter 4 Relationships, Parenting, and ADD 69 Part II The Five Gifts of Adult ADD Chapter 5 Creativity: Cultivate Your Daydreams 97 Chapter 6 The Trailblazer: The Gift of Ecological Consciousness 119 Chapter 7 Interpersonal Intuition 135 Chapter 8 Translate Hyperactivity into Exuberance 161 Chapter 9 Your Emotionally Expressive Gifts 181 Chapter 10 Promise and Pitfalls 199 Final Thoughts 219 Learn More About Dr. Lara Honos-Webb's Work 223 References 227