Peter

This audio might trigger a depressive episode.

Revisado: 04-13-05

I sometimes get gloomy and I read a lot of self help books primarily dealing with cognitive psychology such as "Feeling Good" by Dr. Burns.

I knew this book would take a biological approach upon reading the description and I decided I wanted to hear arguments for the physical explanations of depression. The audio book has a good rating and the paperback book has perfect reviews on Amazon.com , hence, I decided to purchase this book.

I am disappointed. I cannot finish it. Every time I listen it makes me depressed. The content is so dry and uninspiring.

The first 4.5 hours are just about the seven types of depression, their biological causes etc... The content is highly scientific and sounds like a psychology text book. The words Basil Ganglia / Limbic system / Caudal Nucleus are repeated so often (over 200 times) that it makes you cringe when you hear them.

What makes it so frustrating is that it just doesn't work on Audio. This information should serve as a reference in a book format. There is no need to hear (or read this entire book), just the parts that apply to you, unless you are a psychiatrist, etc...

When I listened to this book it made me feel like a victim. I started thinking thoughts such as "Oh my god, what if there is something very biologically wrong with me? What if I can't be cured?" Because after all anti-depressants are not perfect and they just don't work for some people. I also believe, we are still in the baby stages of psychiatry and we don't really know that much about the brain.

This information might be great in book format so you can look up things that you want to know, but to listen to all this negative information has a tendency to put one in a depressed mind set which is probably the opposite intention of the author.

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