This is Your Brain on Depression: Creating Your Path to Getting Better

132 Pages·2018·4.49 MB·English

by  Harper PhD, Faith

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Microcosm Publishing
Portland, OR
This is Your Brain on
DEPRESSION
Creating Your Path
to Getting Better
FAITH G. HARPER, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN
Microcosm Publishing
Portland, OR

This is Your Brain on
DEPRESSION
Creating Your Path
to Getting Better
FAITH G. HARPER,
PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DEPRESSION
Creating Your Path to Getting Better
Part of the 5 Minute Therapy Series
© Dr. Faith Harper, 2016, 2018
This edition © Microcosm Publishing, 2018
First edition, first published 2016
Second edition, first published December 10, 2018
ISBN 978-1-62106-223-3
This is Microcosm #281
Cover illustration by Trista Vercher
Inside covers by Sophie Crumb
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Harper, Faith G., author.
Title: This is your brain on depression : finding your path to getting better
/ Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN.
Description: Second edition. | Portland, Oregon : Microcosm Publishing, 2018.
| Originally published: 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018024077 | ISBN 9781621062233 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Depression, Mental. | Depression, Mental--Treatment.
Classification: LCC RC537 .H347 2018 | DDC 616.85/27--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018024077
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CONTENTS
What is Depression? 9
What Triggers Depression? 13
The Depression Funnel 17
What Kind of Depression do I Have? 23
The Getting Better Part 41
Conclusion 87
Appendices 89
References 119