• Hardcore Self Help: F**k Depression

  • By: Robert Duff
  • Narrated by: Robert Duff
  • Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (844 ratings)

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Hardcore Self Help: F**k Depression

By: Robert Duff
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Hardcore Self Help: F**k Depression is the follow-up to the best-selling F**K Anxiety. In this book I take the information, tips, and insights that I have gained as a psychologist and translate them into language that doesn't suck. This is the self-help book for people who don't usually like self-help books.

In Hardcore Self Help: F**K Depression, I talk to you like a friend. That means I speak directly to you, without psychobabble. Instead I tell you why your brain is such a troll. I explain why you have literally no energy or motivation. I tell you why people are so terrible at offering help. Best of all, I tell you how to take realistic steps toward solving these and many other issues caused by depression.

©2016 Robert Duff (P)2016 Robert Duff

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beginner level help

I've been struggling more than half my life with depression and anxiety (at least 18 years) and feel my experience is past this book. Would be an excellent source for someone beginning their discovery into self help for depression.

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eh

the narration was forced. you can tell he was reading. the jokes were not good. the overall learning was sort of helpful but by the end I just wanted the book to finish.

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good info pertaining to depression.

this book is not an adults book as much as it is a teens book.

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He does a really great job.

What did you love best about Hardcore Self Help: F**k Depression?

This book is very straightforward. It has no annoying euphemisms. It's a book about depression that actually communicates it's ideas in a form palatable to cynical minds. Very well read by the author, it doesn't even sound like a reading most of the time. The information is honest, useful and even motivating. The author spends a deal of time trying to connect with the listener, and it goes a little ways toward breaking down some walls you may have about these kinds of books. I generally find self help books unbearably disingenuous or unrealistically optimistic. I didn't get any of that from this. If you are dealing with depression this is worth a listen.

What about Robert Duff’s performance did you like?

Guy knocked it out of the park. Could have been in the room with me giving some honest advice.

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The 'Hardcore' title is a bit extreme, at first glance of the title you may get the idea that the book is attempting to be edgy, but that's not really the case at all. I would only consider it hardcore in comparison to other, more 'flowery' self help books. There is some language the incredibly innocent might find offensive, but really nothing bad to most people, probably.

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Decent but difficult to recommend

The author tries desperately to appeal to a younger generation by using terms such as "Swag" and "Turnt" going as far to use swear words in just about every other sentence. If you can get past those things there is some good information here my favorite being the "Depression Letter" and the chapter on "Gamification" as it applies to self help. (Both having free resources available on the authors website which is also great)

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extremely helpful!

I found this book to be extremely helpful! it was more insightful than most therapy sessions that I've gone to. Plus, it was like having 10 therapy sessions for less than the price of one! if you are struggling with depression on any level and trying to make positive changes, I highly recommend reading this!

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A rung in the ladder necessary to escape

I recommend this book highly for individuals struggling with low self-esteem, general malaise, or full-blown depression. I have only just finished the book so have not perfected some of the skills recommended by Dr Duff. Consequently I am still so deeply mired in the inexorable muck of hopelessness, self-loathing, and paralysis that I don't really have the energy to say much more. Read the book - - it helps.

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Good resource for the emotional toolbox

a nice refreshing way to look at working with depression. I appreciated the down-to-earth approach to a daunting problem

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Okay

As I listened to the book it made me more depressed. It took me two days to listen to the book but it just seemed to drag me down and become more depressed than I originally was. This book was a prescription for self help since my parents don’t believe and depression and won’t allow me to get actual help. I just consumed myself wail listing. Towards the end I just wanted the book to end. But mainly I think it was because of the way I was feeling.

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A good overview of depression and treatments.

If you're looking for some ground breaking, new method for treating depression, this book is not it. It is, however a good introduction to the world of depression and the most popular ways of treating it. A lot of the information was not new to me but having used of the methods discussed in the book, I do think that they can be useful and helpful to people that have not gone to therapy or are just learning about the topic.

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