Review: Get the focus off yourself!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2013
This is the main point of Dolores Ayotte's book, written to help sufferers of minor depressive episodes, although the advice contained within its pages could have significant useful application for individuals diagnosed with Major Depression, if these individuals are in a position to be able to hear and utilize this advice.Dolores draws from her own experience in writing this. Given that, there is a lot of focus on her specific problems and her own individual solutions, and there is not much that is directly generalizable to others unless they, as her daughter so beautifully puts it in the foreword, have an "open heart".There are a few minor typos and spelling issues (they're/their and you're/your confusion) that detracted somewhat from my reading of the book, but these were few and far between. I just wouldn't be much of an editor if I didn't point them out.All in all, this is a quick read that I certainly enjoyed, and it caused me to reevaluate some things I'm doing in my own life (and how I'm thinking and feeling about them). In that respect, I would definitely say that the book has served the purpose for which it was designed, at least in one person's life.