I've learned over the years that depression usually takes a milder course and disappears much more quickly when the person concerned does the right self-help and gets the right support from their relatives.
This positive effect is unfortunately extremely underestimated in general. People often avoid the topic of depression and cannot deal with it. It's still largely a taboo subject, basically unchanged since the Middle Ages.
Intuitively, therefore, help and self-help are usually done completely wrong, and the healing process is delayed instead of accelerated. For example sufferers often don't... read more
Intuitively, therefore, help and self-help are usually done completely wrong, and the healing process is delayed instead of accelerated. For example sufferers often don't want to accept depression as an illness and continue to force themselves to do work or private tasks that they simply cannot do at the moment because of their illness. They then fail again and again, and that pulls them more and more into the abyss. And relatives see e.g. depression rarely as an illness, but rather as a kind of weakness that the sufferer must overcome by "pulling together".
Good medical treatment and, if necessary, psychotherapy is also very important. But even in wealthy countries like Germany or the United States, 60 to 70% of patients wait longer than 3 weeks for their first appointment with a psychiatrist. It often takes far too long before you can even receive medical care from a specialist.
Until then there is "only" self-help and help from relatives and friends. Unfortunately, according to my research over the years, there is hardly any helpful information on the Internet or in books. I've read more than 20 self-help guides for depression, according to the blurb. Only one of them was usable, also written by a former sufferer. Most of the books are far too broad, the essential is missing or is reduced to 2 or 3 pages. It also sometimes contains incorrect information that clearly contradicts my own experience with the disease as a sufferer and helper. read less
The lack of useful help and self-help information mentioned above was the main motivation for me to write the two books. They fill a gap.
My books don't give "smart tips" about all sorts of mental disorders, as it is often the case. They are specially tailored to pronounced depression (or the so-called depressive episodes of depressive illnesses and burnout). For those affected who suffer from symptoms such as listlessness, lack of joy, being overwhelmed by simple tasks, etc.
Sufferers and their relatives see the disease from a different perspective. Therefore, there is a special book "My Friend" that is aimed specifically at those affected. The book "I Can Help" is aimed specifically at relatives and friends.
My books are not "textbooks" copied from somewhere. They are based solely on my own experiences in 23 years of practice as a sufferer and a helper for others.
The methods and rules described in the books are not a type of psychotherapy. They are very easy to use and in most cases accelerate recovery - with or without parallel medical and psychiatric treatment.
Peer says: I'm glad I didn't have any medical training on mental illness and its treatment. Otherwise, I would probably doubt some of the knowledge I have acquired in practice.
Ruvini Candappa
Business English Trainer & Coach
The books offer practical advice, a compassionate perspective, and the reassurance that recovery is possible.
Margarethe Hamfler
Community manager on Facebook in a depression group
I understand why there are two books: "My Friend" for those affected and "I Can Help" for their relatives.
Martin
Engineer from Munich
What I like about Peer's books is the practical relevance. You can tell right away that he's speaking from personal experience.
Isabell Voetz
Naturopath and author from Berlin
By opening the cover of the book, you open the door to the room of depression a crack. And what you will see in it will fill you with hope.
Peer says: No one, absolutely no one, can understand what depression feels like if you've never been through it yourself.
Peer Worms, born in 1967, studied information technology at the TU Ilmenau, worked for almost 25 years as an employed and freelance software developer
suffered from 3 major depressions between 1998 and 2008
since 2008 Peer has been helping other sufferers and their relatives with the knowledge he has gained in practice with great success
now lives with his partner and publisher Agnes Okreh in Cape Verde
since January 2022 CTO at OKREH MEDIA
Peer Worms, born in 1967, studied information technology at the TU Ilmenau, worked for almost 25 years as an employed and freelance software developer
suffered from 3 major depressions between 1998 and 2008
since 2008 Peer has been helping other sufferers and their relatives with the knowledge he has gained in practice with great success
now lives with his partner and publisher Agnes Okreh in Cape Verde
since January 2022 CTO at OKREH MEDIA
In colloquial speech, the word "depression" is often used for a person's depressed mood, e.g. as a result of a failed relationship, the death of a good friend, etc. These are not the "depressions" that my books are about. This is about help for people who suffer from a pronounced nervous illness with the medical term "depression" or "burnout", or who are in the so-called "depressive episode" of a nervous illness, and that in moderate to severe expression. The symptoms include a lack of joy, listlessness, loss of self-esteem, constant brooding and limited mental performance. In my reading samples, the symptoms of sufferers are described in detail, to whom my books are aimed.
Probably not. If the symptoms I have described do not apply to you, then there is a high probability that you are not suffering from depression. There are many other mental illnesses and disorders that also affect mood and well-being, sometimes severely. But I can't help you with that. Please seek help from a psychiatrist or neurologist.
My honest answer is: NO! No one can give 100 % guarantee that anything will cure an illness or a disease. But I'll tell you the following: Apart from very few exceptions, depression generally goes away on its own, and the body's self-healing powers work. It just takes a long time. With good medical treatment (most commonly medication), appropriate psychotherapy, proper help from family and friends, and proper self-help, your depression will go away much faster. My books will help you with the last two points mentioned.
Hello, this is Agnes. I'm the owner of the publishing house OKREH MEDIA. We offer you the low price as a thank you as a new customer. My publisher is a reputable company. We don't do "tricks" or build "online traps" like others do here. We want to help people with our products, not cheat them. I stand for this together with my partner Peer. The purchase and return processes are carried out via Digistore24 from Germany, the largest online payment service provider in Europe and with offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. Digistore24 strictly monitors the correctness of all financial transactions and controls the quality of the products and their shipping. Shipping worldwide is done also from Germany via a reliable partner. 10 % of our proceeds benefit the poorest of the poor in Cape Verde, especially street children. We also have a high moral obligation to these people.
I can understand your fear of the psychiatrist very well. It was exactly the same for me the first time. But you don't need to be afraid. And even if you are holding my book in your hands, you should still get professional medical help if you have the opportunity. My book can help you very well, but it does not replace the doctor! The book has no eyes and ears. It cannot see or hear you. It can't tell if you really have depression or if you're suffering from something else. The book cannot prescribe you the medication, which can also help you very well now.
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Who better to help someone with depression? a) a person with many years of medical training, who has never suffered from depression? Or b) a nonmedical person who was hit hard several times by the depression and inevitably gained a lot of experience of his own that he could also use to help other sufferers? The answer is: a) and b) are just as good and helpful. Everyone from groups a) and b) can help very well because of their specific and valuable knowledge, even if they acquired it in different ways.