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Dorothy Rowe. Breaking the Bonds
BREAKING THE BONDS
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Dedication
Contents
Preface How to Use This Book
1 An Ordinary Story
2 Depression – the Painful Isolation
3 Our Greatest Fear
Finding the Source of Our Greatest Fear
Extroverts and Introverts
Why We Need to Know Ourselves
4 Believing That We Are Not Good Enough
Drawing the Conclusion ‘I Am Bad’
Saving Our Self
Becoming an Expert in Feeling Guilty
Compensations for Believing ‘I Am Bad’
Living Our Story
5 Constructing Our Prison of Depression
How Thoughts and Images Create a Prison
How Pat Built her Prison of Depression
The Recipe for Depression
How the Six Beliefs Fit Together
6 Fearing Change
7 Wanting Certainty
8 Pride
9 Taking Things Personally
10 Hanging On to Hopes
11 Other People
Ourselves and Society
Families Against Change
Partners and Power
12 The Expert’s Secret
13 Fitting Yourself for the Journey
14 Suicide Is Not a Solution
15 What You Need to Find Along the Way
Labelling Emotions Correctly
Finding Forgiveness
The Consequences of Striving to Be Good
The World Is Neither Just Nor Unjust
Our Helplessness Is the Source of Our Strength
Changing Our Relationships with Other People
16 Leaving Loneliness Behind
Our Rules about Our Relationships
Our Beliefs about Relationships
Our Skills in Our Relationships
Our Emotions in Our Relationships
Dismantling the Barrier
Twelve Decisions
17 Helping One Another
Denise wrote back to say:
Cathy wrote:
Don said:
Shirley said:
Kath wrote:
Jenny wrote:
Sally told me more about herself:
Lisa and Janice wrote:
Lorraine wrote:
Christine expressed some reservations about the group:
Enid said:
Wendy wrote:
Patricia wrote:
18 Trying Something New
19 Journey’s End
20 Discoveries
Discoveries. Discovery 1
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21 Is Depression a Physical Illness?
The History of Depression
The Classification of Depression
What Psychiatrists Say Publicly
What Psychiatrists Say Privately
Why Psychiatrists Insist that Depression Is a Physical Illness
Why Psychologists Insist that Depression Is a Physical Illness
The Cause and Outcome of Cancer and Heart Disease
How Important Is Thinking?
What it Means to Be Told That You Have a Genetic Illness
Understanding Why
22 Drugs – Friend or Foe?
23 Choosing a Therapist
Different Kinds of Therapy
Kinds of Therapists
24 Technical Terms – Keys to the Jargon
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References
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
