By learning the skills presented in this book and how to apply them, you can increase your knowledge so that overcoming depression is within reach. This self-help book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to learn to improve their life. The author brings a refreshing perspective to the problem of depression. A central focus of this self-help book is to help you improve your thinking skills so that life can be more manageable. Maschio teaches that through education, victims of depression can have more power to win the battle over it. With life being more manageable, you can be in more control to achieve the changes that may lead to your happiness and a more successful life. Having battled with her own affliction of depression, Maschio shares her personal battle and how she came to face it and overcame it solely through education. This book shows you how the lack of education of certain thinking skills can cause a spiraling effect of absolute or emotional thinking, which once learned to rely upon, limits our thoughts from being productive and positive. Thus, we stop experiencing growth and from reaching our full potential, which can lead to depression. Learning the skills takes knowledge and practice to develop, which is not taught in many schools and available in only a limited number of college programs. The author passes this knowledge and skills on to you. This workbook stands out from other books for overcoming depression because the models, skills, and concepts taught are woven into a systematic fashion that make the walk through overcoming depression easy to follow. The author walks you through each phase so that you may progress successfully to overcome depression. The aspects of depression are explained on a level that any mature reader can easily understand.