Drew Pinsky
Autore di Cracked: Life on the Edge in a Rehab Clinic
Opere di Drew Pinsky
When Painkillers Become Dangerous: What Everyone Needs to Know About OxyContin and Other Prescription Drugs (2004) 19 copie
It Doesn't Have to Be Awkward: Dealing with Relationships, Consent, and Other Hard-to-Talk-About Stuff (2021) 19 copie
Restoring Intimacy: The Patient's Guide to Maintaining Relationships During Depression (1999) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Pinsky, Drew
- Nome legale
- Pinsky, David Drew
- Data di nascita
- 1958-09-04
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Pasadena, California, USA
- Attività lavorative
- physician
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Utenti
- 369
- Popolarità
- #65,264
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 21
The book is set in a Q & A format with each question having multiple answers being given by various professionals in the mental health field. The first half of this 100 page book was all about defining depression. The second half was not so much about restoring intimacy as it was about waiting until it comes back on its own. It was a frustrating practice in redundancy. Every question was basically a variation of "I (or my partner with depression) are having trouble with intimacy because of my depression (or as a side effect of my medication). Every answer was a variation on the same three pieces of advice: 1) Take/change your meds, 2) Go to psychotherapy/couple's therapy 3) Wait until things get better.
Literally no better advice than to just wait it out. I find that to be pretty useless and extremely offensive. Just because a person has depression doesn't mean they're completely incapable of doing anything, and can't take actionable steps to make themselves feel more proactive/better about preserving the intimacy in their relationship. Even if it's not something that can be done in the deepest darkest depths of depression, there are things that can be done when you feel yourself falling into and coming out of depression that can help, and this book offered NONE of that.
I was also pretty offended at how even though most of the questions were given in a very open and non-gender specific format, then answers would assume/attribute issues to a specific gender.
Don't waste your time on this one. There are many other resources out there that provide better information and offer actionable tools/exercises/steps on the topic of intimacy and depression.
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