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Depression is a Liar

By: Danny L Baker
Narrated by: Gary Furlong
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Depression can convince you that there’s no escape. Your thoughts may turn to suicide because it appears to be the only option. But depression is a liar. I suffered from life-threatening bouts of depression that led to alcoholism, drug abuse, medicine-induced psychosis and multiple hospitalisations. This memoir recounts my struggle and triumph over depression. I hope it helps you or your loved ones if any of you are struggling.

Although originally from Australia, Danny travels the world full-time while he writes his novels. His future goals include visiting every country in the world, hitting the New York Times bestseller list, getting married and starting a family.©2016 Danny Baker (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd Mental Health Mood Disorders Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Happiness Health
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This book puts a lot of my thoughts into perspective I’m not the only one.
The main issue is to make changes and not to keep going round in circles.
Fingers crossed that it works

Listen and make change

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I think Danny L Baker does a pretty solid job of conveying the effects of depression that a young adult can experience. The initial confusion and denial, the ensuing inner conflict and turmoil, the coping mechanisms or dependencies, and the fear of not knowing if you will ever overcome it. Some people seem to not like the excessive swearing, but it is a glimpse into the very raw and very unfiltered mode that I think most young men myself included keep bottled up the majority of the time, not to mention the guy is an aussie, it would be weird if he wasn't swearing every sentence.

Overall, a very interesting listen and a great performance by Gary Furlong, although I would say that the fact that he overcomes or perhaps rather learns to counteract his depression, partially based off of finding people in worse states to compare himself to, when one of his later guiding principles is to not compare yourself to others, something which we all do and usually end up feeling inferior due to often looking up and not down, further reinforces my belief that we all can find subjective meaning from things that could be construed as inherently wrong whilst claiming to know better, justifying it, or being ignorant to the possible hypocrisy. These actions themselves are almost completely unavoidable and the whole idea that you need to reprogram your brain and must have therapy to do so is a somewhat contrived notion that I don't think is done out of ill will here yet assumes that everyone can travel the same path is perhaps a tad optimistic. We do need more methods of help and books are a great resource, but for people to be making money off of mental health, this book included, still urks me slightly, I'm sure others feel the same way. This being said, the book is relatable and mostly grounded, causing you to pose several questions to yourself that many of us need to ask which will hopefully lead to a better understanding of one's self.

Very honest and relatable

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talented sort of guy didn't really relate to much to it.. I've been in some right pickles not sure this has any bearing ,some of it does a lot of flannel in the middle. think the guy means well and seems really good man but hey doesn't really cut it.

more about him than me.

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It's a real life book told without smoothing the edges of what it's like to suffer from depression. Lots of swearing but that's the reality. Easy to listen to and some good tips.

I can relate to this guy

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I was with him all the way and could relate a lot. The narrator was great. Highly recommended.

Great listen, good on you Danny

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