Why I Run - Patrick, Darcy

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Résumé :
Why I Run is my story of fighting depression. Read about this unique experience from someone who experienced it firsthand, as this book has not been written by a doctor or a therapist. My story is honest, bold, and most of all truthful. This book runs walks you through the thoughts and feelings of a depressed man who has beaten himself up for most of his life. It takes you to the edge of where the darkest thoughts and actions are to times of true depression and heartbreaking desperation. From there it shows how hard it can be to ask for help and to actually accept this help by going to therapy for the first time and confronting my worst fears. I ask tough real life questions and learn to answer them over time with hard work. This book is all about change and the struggle to embrace new ways of thinking while being open about what depression really is. The narrative moves through different types of therapy and reveals how at first I was so reluctant to do the things I was being taught. Read about how I rebuilt my life from the bottom up by healing old traumas with new therapies (EMDR). Witness the highs and the lows of fighting every day as I learn that depression can only be beaten with self love and practice and then more practice. Understand that feeling good for a depressed man or woman can feel bad at first but then become natural over time. The story moves from the deepest depths of depression to the most incredible highs from learning to fight and embrace the new tools I am given. Follow my journey from wanting to disappear and kill myself to practicing yoga, running, and meditation and loving who I am. Listen to why I stop playing music altogether to learn to play for myself for the first time. Witness how I ultimately overcome anxiety, beat guilt, and attack the building blocks of depression by looking it in the eye, fighting, and winning in the end. I have written this book in the hopes of killing the stigma attached to depression and opening up conversations that have never been opened before. For people who suffer every day in silence I offer hope that they can live a full life one day with hard work. For those of you who have friends and family members who suffer from depression, I would like to help you understand what depression really is.

Biographie:
For 25 years or more, Darcy was a professional bass player playing in many types of bands, teaching and making a living from music. At the same time, he was also working full time in a music store doing repairs to guitars and basses as well as managing the store. In 2013 the perfect storm happened in his life and pushed him over the edge. Darcy had struggled for over 38 years from depression and had to make a call for help, which was one of the most difficult things he had ever done. After a month of intense therapy, his therapist started giving homework. Darcy would hand it in weekly, and they would talk about what he had written and work on changing his negative thoughts, changing the way he was seeing the world, and it was working in ways he never dreamed possible. Darcy's therapist told him he was a natural writer and that if he wrote a book he could change thousands of people's lives who suffered in silence, who were too afraid to reach out and get help. Four years later he released his first book, Why I Run: My Story of How I Won My Life Back From the Darkness of Depression. Since the release of Why I Run, Darcy's life has changed dramatically. He became a public speaker doing talks all around Southern Ontario for many different mental health originations to raise awareness on depression and mental health. His goals are to break the stigma behind depression and mental health, help as many people as he can, and let them know they are not alone. Shortly after the release of Why I Run, people started coming into his place of work, buying the book and talking to him about their struggles, sometimes for the first time. They felt comfortable talking with him, Darcy would help them by listening and pointing them in the right directions, and helping them the best he could. Why I Run has touched thousands of lives. Darcy then went on to write Creative Writing For The Mind, Body & Soul and My Guided Meditation: Using Meditation as a Therapeutic Tool to Focus Your Overactive Mind, and now The Big Let Goo: Letting Go of Control is Taking Control. In just 7 years of therapy, Darcy has turned the one thing in his life that almost destroyed him into the greatest thing that has ever happened to him, giving him a purpose that he never dreamed of having! Darcy's experiences and struggles have made him strong, not weak, and he now lives a life of purpose. That purpose is breaking the stigma behind mental health and helping as many people as he can....

Sommaire:
For 25 years or more, Darcy was a professional bass player playing in many types of bands, teaching and making a living from music. At the same time, he was also working full time in a music store doing repairs to guitars and basses as well as managing the store. In 2013 the perfect storm happened in his life and pushed him over the edge. Darcy had struggled for over 38 years from depression and had to make a call for help, which was one of the most difficult things he had ever done. After a month of intense therapy, his therapist started giving homework. Darcy would hand it in weekly, and they would talk about what he had written and work on changing his negative thoughts, changing the way he was seeing the world, and it was working in ways he never dreamed possible. Darcy's therapist told him he was a natural writer and that if he wrote a book he could change thousands of people's lives who suffered in silence, who were too afraid to reach out and get help. Four years later he released his first book, Why I Run: My Story of How I Won My Life Back From the Darkness of Depression. Since the release of Why I Run, Darcy's life has changed dramatically. He became a public speaker doing talks all around Southern Ontario for many different mental health originations to raise awareness on depression and mental health. His goals are to break the stigma behind depression and mental health, help as many people as he can, and let them know they are not alone. Shortly after the release of Why I Run, people started coming into his place of work, buying the book and talking to him about their struggles, sometimes for the first time. They felt comfortable talking with him, Darcy would help them by listening and pointing them in the right directions, and helping them the best he could. Why I Run has touched thousands of lives. Darcy then went on to write Creative Writing For The Mind, Body & Soul and My Guided Meditation: Using Meditation as a Therapeutic Tool to Focus Your Overactive Mind, and now The Big Let Goo: Letting Go of Control is Taking Control. In just 7 years of therapy, Darcy has turned the one thing in his life that almost destroyed him into the greatest thing that has ever happened to him, giving him a purpose that he never dreamed of having! Darcy's experiences and struggles have made him strong, not weak, and he now lives a life of purpose. That purpose is breaking the stigma behind mental health and helping as many people as he can....