A comprehensive book on how depression & anxiety affects our brains and how to deal with them. The book provides you with a series of self-help approaches that can lead you to an upward spiral.
Good thing about this book is that while it is abounding with neuroscientific facts that promote the understanding of how depression/depressed people function, it is also equipped with a bunch of tactics that you can practice (relatively) easily in real life, without much help of medical interventions.
It does, however, emphasize the effects medical interventions like medications/psychotherapy/neuromodulations have on treating depression, but I liked it that it encourages you to try those practices first in order to start out the upward spiral, unlike other books that claim to give ‘scientific understandings’ of depression tend to end up explaining how medical interventions are the one-and-only effective tool in handling depression.
There were a few words and sentences that were a bit too repetitive, but besides that, it is a comprehensive, easy to read self-help book on depression & anxiety.