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Grillo has written a unique book. By following the physical travels of friends and relatives, finally of his own, he discovers the help he needs to overcome paranoid schizophrenia. Although each of these travels, trips, involve different types of people traveling in different circumstances, they each teach a lesson about how to handle personal difficulties for life.
Depression is nothing like that. Even most clinical diseases have symptoms that are easily used to diagnose the underlying illness. Depression does not appear on an x-ray. Depression does not show up on a thermometer or blood pressure monitor. Depression is very debilitating and can ruin your life and the lives of the ones that you love. The best depression self help remedy is becoming aware of the depression itself.
I knew what my problem was, and this is the curious part. I knew that successful people think on a different level than the average person, and I have read several different books by successful men. For example, Donald Trump; I got what he was saying, but I felt he wasn't getting to the essence of my problem. I tried to ask my parents and my friends, and they told me that I was thinking too much. This brings us to my journey:
Even once identified, the depression is very difficult to treat. The root causes may be fairly easy to identify such as a stressful event like divorce, death of a loved one, being laid off or other personal tragedy. More often the root source of the depression is much harder to identify without extensive therapy and introspection.
He discovers from these tales how to accomplish this without the use of drugs or psychotherapy. Much can be learned from these travels, both for those with conditions like his and those aware of others, supporting others or even simply wanting to know more about similar conditions.
For example, when I was fed up with being a scrawny seventh grader, I started reading myriad books on bodybuilding and weightlifting. Once I knew what to do I began hitting the gym three days a week. By eighth grade I was able to bench-press 150 lb, which amazed a lot of my friends. Most of them told me they couldn't do it. They were missing the point. At some point, I couldn't physically do it, but I tried, and I never told myself that I couldn't.
There's a great deal more to the book than that. When you absorb all of it, life itself will reveal how beautiful it is, you notice the little things, and you finally begin to find the creative, limitless self within.
Depression is nothing like that. Even most clinical diseases have symptoms that are easily used to diagnose the underlying illness. Depression does not appear on an x-ray. Depression does not show up on a thermometer or blood pressure monitor. Depression is very debilitating and can ruin your life and the lives of the ones that you love. The best depression self help remedy is becoming aware of the depression itself.
I knew what my problem was, and this is the curious part. I knew that successful people think on a different level than the average person, and I have read several different books by successful men. For example, Donald Trump; I got what he was saying, but I felt he wasn't getting to the essence of my problem. I tried to ask my parents and my friends, and they told me that I was thinking too much. This brings us to my journey:
Even once identified, the depression is very difficult to treat. The root causes may be fairly easy to identify such as a stressful event like divorce, death of a loved one, being laid off or other personal tragedy. More often the root source of the depression is much harder to identify without extensive therapy and introspection.
He discovers from these tales how to accomplish this without the use of drugs or psychotherapy. Much can be learned from these travels, both for those with conditions like his and those aware of others, supporting others or even simply wanting to know more about similar conditions.
For example, when I was fed up with being a scrawny seventh grader, I started reading myriad books on bodybuilding and weightlifting. Once I knew what to do I began hitting the gym three days a week. By eighth grade I was able to bench-press 150 lb, which amazed a lot of my friends. Most of them told me they couldn't do it. They were missing the point. At some point, I couldn't physically do it, but I tried, and I never told myself that I couldn't.
There's a great deal more to the book than that. When you absorb all of it, life itself will reveal how beautiful it is, you notice the little things, and you finally begin to find the creative, limitless self within.
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