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Book Description
What do you do when you feel sick and tired of the overwhelming symptoms of depression?
How do you combat the anxiety and stress that go hand in hand with it?
Are there any proven ways to defeat major depression and live the life of your dream?
In this one-of-a-kind story of almost unimaginable struggle, endurance, love, determination and a magic-like final-victory, Evelyn S. Rodas shares her life-long experiences with one of the most pervasive and disabling illnesses a human being can have. The author reveals the shortcomings and misbeliefs that we run up against when trying to get a deeper understanding of depression, which so often muddy the waters and prevent effective treatment. Evelyn S. Rodas seeks to shed light on the need to reshape the conversation about depression, anxiety, and mental illness.
Artfully written with a heartfelt and packed with fascinating observations that have been overlooked for years, “No, you cannot JUST SNAP OUT OF IT” offers refreshing insights from a different, much-needed perspective, bringing a new vision to an old problem.
This book is an enlightening read that expertly weaves personal anecdotes and other stories with scientific studies, new information, and valuable advice. With soul-searching questions, and a challenge to preconceptions, this book gives you a chance to see how a different approach may be the right solution for you.
With the breakdown of the psychological, physiological, and emotional components behind depression, you will learn what so many people get wrong about it and why it is impossible for certain people to simply “Snap out of it”. Through this reading you will also learn about other relevant topics that the author has addressed, such as eating disorders, grief, and suicide; as well as the stigma on mental illness and how to reduce it.
At a time when so many people are suffering silently, this book aims to be their voice. “No, you cannot JUST SNAP OUT OF IT” is a must-read for anybody who is struggling with major depression and anxiety, for those who want to help a loved one, or a friend with mental illness, and for anybody who wants to gain new insights into these blurry topics (from someone who has dealt with them for almost thirty years!)
Author Bio
Evelyn S. Rodas is an author with a mission to raise awareness about the need to break with old paradigms about major depression disorder, anxiety, and mental health, and to explore new concepts more in tune with their real meaning.
Through her almost three decades fighting unipolar depression, Evelyn has gained knowledge that can only be obtain through personal cognitive experience. Her firsthand encounters with the illness provide her with the elements to describe in a vivid way the crippling agony that this devastating disease inflicts on its victims.
At present, recovering from her long battle against clinical depression, she wants to bring hope to anyone who is struggling with this disease and feels there is no solution; she wants you to know that once she also felt like that, and although she went through one of the most serious cases of depression and anxiety, as her doctor described it, she came out triumphant.
Evelyn S. Rodas points out that if she had known the big pile of information that she now possesses about her disease, much of her suffering could have been avoided. By writing this book, she aims to provide other patients with a shortcut so they will not have to wait for years to finally get to the root causes of their condition.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to all the people who are deeply suffering or have suffered from major-depression-and-anxiety while being told it is all in their head.
To the victims of all the misinformation and the wrong beliefs that surround these out of sight major diseases.
“Like the fragile dove in the cover of this book, your wings are broken, and your feet are tied to the ground. The rest of the birds are cheering you up, inviting you to come along, fly with them and have a jolly time. The truth is that your wounds are invisible to the eyes of the ones who are seeing you from up high.”