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    21 Ways to a Happier Depression: A Creative Guide to Getting Unstuck from Anxiety, Setbacks, and Stress (Mental Health Gift for Loved Ones)
    21 Ways to a Happier Depression: A Creative Guide to Getting Unstuck from Anxiety, Setbacks, and Stress (Mental Health Gift for Loved Ones)
    21 Ways to a Happier Depression: A Creative Guide to Getting Unstuck from Anxiety, Setbacks, and Stress (Mental Health Gift for Loved Ones)
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    21 Ways to a Happier Depression: A Creative Guide to Getting Unstuck from Anxiety, Setbacks, and Stress (Mental Health Gift for Loved Ones)

    By Seth Swirsky

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    Say goodbye to dreary shades of black and white and start seeing the world for the prism of color it is with this refreshing and creative guide! In a unique combination of art, activities, and uplifting anecdotes, 21 Ways to a Happier Depression leads you on a hands-on journey to personal growth. Getting you out of one of "those moods" can be as simple as:

    • Making the bed
    • Nurturing a plant
    • Painting shapes in loops and colors
    • Breaking down your work into a to-do list
    • Getting a fresh new look with some different décor, or even a haircut!

    Inspired by his own life experience, Clinical Psychologist Seth Swirsky gently encourages positive introspection through honest and practical advice. With this book, a happier depression is literally in your hands!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateApr 4, 2017
    ISBN9781492648147
    21 Ways to a Happier Depression: A Creative Guide to Getting Unstuck from Anxiety, Setbacks, and Stress (Mental Health Gift for Loved Ones)
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    Seth Swirsky

    Seth Swirsky is an accomplished songwriter, mixed media artist and Clinical Psychologist who lives and practices in California where he has successfully merged his passion for art with his practice. As a songwriter, Seth Swirsky has written hits for Celine Dion, Smokey Robinson, Al Green, Rufus Wainwright and many others, but his current passion is using his creativity in his practice to help give his patients the tools to alleviate and eventually overcome depression, anxiety, helping them achieve their personal goals.

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      21 Ways to a Happier Depression - Seth Swirsky

      You’re depressed. I get it. I’ve been there. Almost everyone I know has been there, to varying degrees. For relief from the oftentimes horrific feelings that can accompany depression and anxiety, some of us take medication. Many of us see or have seen therapists. Some of us participate in the latest psychological treatments with important-sounding acronyms: EMDR, CBT, SE. We do these things in an attempt to make our depression lift. And yet, more often than not, that hazy, miserable, I’ll-never-beat-this-terrible-feeling persists.

      Instead of fighting it, I’ve come up with twenty-one small, simple, specific tasks that I’ve used over the years to help alleviate my own depression and anxiety-filled moments. I present them to you in this book. While they cannot cure depression, these tasks can help make the worst feelings a little less bad—and a little less bad, when it comes to depression, can be significant.

      During my darkest times, using the tasks I outline here gave me needed respites, which gave me the confidence to face those feelings when they returned—and knowing that these tasks worked made me not fear the future. As a clinical psychotherapist, I now share the suggestions in this book with my own patients, who have been helped by them to a significant degree.

      Depression and anxiety are very tough foes. If even one or two of the ideas contained within these pages can help alleviate your depression, then great—that’s one or two more coping strategies than you had before. And as those of us who have battled the behemoth of depression or anxiety know, you can use any and all the help you can get.

      Finally, one might ask why, in this day of easy access to information, we need this book when a person can just search online for depression, help! When you are feeling depressed, it’s very comforting to have an actual, physical book around to flip through for a new idea or two, a reminder of all the little victories you can have. It’s comforting and reassuring, like an old, trusted friend.

      So let’s get started. With this book, a happier depression is now, literally, in your hands.

      Seth Swirsky, MA

      Sometimes I feel stuck. Like I’m in a box and can’t get out. And I don’t mean that literally—although sometimes I do find it hard to leave my apartment. What I mean is I get stuck in my own patterns and ways of doing things, stuck in communicating the same way about the same things with the same people. Don’t get me wrong; patterns can be comforting and grounding, but they also keep me from having new thoughts and seeing and experiencing new things, which in turn keep me from moving forward in life.

      During one of the times I was feeling boxed in, I thought I’d buy an inexpensive paint set, two brushes, and two small canvases. I didn’t know what I would paint, since I’m not particularly visually artistic and I didn’t feel like

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