Beat Depression

The Beat Depression Program is a 10-step video course packed with information and self help exercises. Please note this app is very large due to the amount of high quality HD video.

• A unique and powerful program that provides anyone who suffers from depression with a ready made set of steps to help them recover without using antidepressants.

• It bypasses the theory and gets straight to the heart of the depression by offering rapid relief with clear cut, practical guidance.

• Created from the best selling book ‘Beat Depression And Reclaim Your Life’, it is based on the real experiences of others who know what it’s like to feel overpowered by depression but have now fully recovered.

About the Author - Alex Massey

My name is Alexandra Massey and I have been through the hell of depression and come through to the other side.

Some years ago I woke up one day and thought ‘I can’t go on….’ I felt like my world had come to a full stop because the feelings of hopelessness were totally overwhelming. I’d had depression for some time but it just kept getting worse. I had gone from being depressed, but able to function, to being hardly able to function at all. It took me all my strength just to get out of bed and I wasn’t able to do much else. However, I had a small son at the time and I knew that I had to find a way through this.

When I was severely depressed I knew I didn’t want to resort to prescription drugs because I had been told it was like ‘having a glass of wine three times a day’ by a family member who was also a doctor. Whether or not that was true I knew that any type of drug was not going to cure me. I knew that if I started taking prescription drugs that could take me down a slippery side road and when I stopped, I would be right back to square one. It was the short cut that I didn’t want to take.

I was desperate so I started searching for help. And the more I looked, the more I found. It was a number of different things that finally started to lift the despair and blackness to a ray of hope again. My recovery took some time but I knew that I was sorting myself out to ensure I would never go down that black hole again. After what seemed like forever, I finally got out of the hole and I know that I will never go back down there again. I learnt that if I take my recovery seriously, I would knock depression on the head once and for all. And I have.

I started working on help lines, for others who were depressed, as my role as Chair of ‘Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families’, a 12 Step program. I was aware that people were asking the same questions like: What’s wrong with me? What can I do to feel better? Where can I get help?

I decided to write a book of my own experience in case it could help anyone else. The book, ‘Beat Depression And Reclaim Your Life’ came out in 2004 and became an instant best seller. I wrote several more but my heart always lay in this first book. I knew I wanted to help more people beat depression and that was when I thought of turning the book into an online program.

The Beat Depression Program is a starting point and it’s the recovery stepping stones encapsulated into ten steps. I hope you get as much out of it as I got when looking for ways to beat depression. We’re a growing community. Please stay in touch. Let me know your story. It’s why I’m here.

"Offers a practical lifeline to depression sufferers" - Ok! Magazine