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    If Only Sleep Would Last Forever!: Help for Depression and Anxiety from One Who’s Been There
    If Only Sleep Would Last Forever!: Help for Depression and Anxiety from One Who’s Been There
    If Only Sleep Would Last Forever!: Help for Depression and Anxiety from One Who’s Been There
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    If Only Sleep Would Last Forever!: Help for Depression and Anxiety from One Who’s Been There

    By Murray C. Watson

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    This book is about depression and anxiety — and what you can do about it. It could as easily be titled Pills, Skills, or the Will? It deals not only with anti-depressant drugs, and anti-depressant skills, but includes an anti-depressant will or lifestyle therapy. Drugs can cause side-effects and collateral damage. Talk therapy, such as CBT, though very helpful, may not go far enough. This lifestyle or interaction therapy can be added to any treatment method, with positive and long-lasting results. What is this lifestyle therapy? It is as old as the Book of Job, and as new as tomorrow’s sunrise. In my speeches, I use the acronym ‘Welcome,’ because when I look back at overcoming my depression, I see I welcomed seven actions into my life:

    W alk half-an-hour a day
    E xpress yourself
    L ove your neighbour as yourself
    C onfess wrongdoing to your victim
    O ffer forgiveness
    M ake smiles
    E ye others

    Can anti-depressant drugs handle guilt? Can Talk Therapy repair torn relationships? This lifestyle therapy is not about ‘people-pleasing,’ but about a realistic and practical approach. An approach that can leave you looking at your illness in the rear-view mirror.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 23, 2013
    ISBN9781483509167
    If Only Sleep Would Last Forever!: Help for Depression and Anxiety from One Who’s Been There

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      Book preview

      If Only Sleep Would Last Forever! - Murray C. Watson

      IF ONLY

      SLEEP

      WOULD

      LAST

      FOREVER!

      Copyright © 2010, 2013 (ebook edition) by Murray C. Watson

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Watson, Murray C., 1941–

      If only sleep would last forever : help for depression and anxiety from one who’s been there / by Murray C. Watson

      1. Depression, Mental—Treatment. 2. Anxiety—Treatment. 3. Depression, Mental—Quotations, maxims, etc. 4. Anxiety—Quotations, maxims, etc. 5. Self-help techniques. 6. Watson, Murray C., 1941–. I. Title.

      ebook edition

      Issued also in print format.

      ebook preparation: Kim Monteforte

      cover design: Kim Monteforte

      e-mail: murray@speakingtoinspire.com

      www.speakingtoinspire.com

      To purchase books, CDs, inspirational place mats, or to book a speech, please see contact information at back of book.

      IF ONLY

      SLEEP

      WOULD

      LAST

      FOREVER!

      Help for Depression

      and Anxiety from

      One Who’s Been There

      Murray C. Watson

      Dedicated posthumously to

      Virginia (Ginny) Mackenzie Rich

      1952–2004

      and her son

      Frederick (Teddy) Arthur Rich

      Available from Murray C. Watson

      Books

      DAILY WISDOM AND SERENITY

      Quotations for Mind and Soul

      SMILES, WISDOM AND ENCOURAGEMENT

      Quotations with Personal Commentary to Lift Your Life

      IF ONLY SLEEP WOULD LAST FOREVER

      Help for Depression and Anxiety from One Who’s Been There

      (Other Books available — please see next page)

      CDs of 14 SPEECHES

      Finding Serenity Avenue (Take Kindness)

      A Brother Like That

      Don’t Horse Around with Aeroplanes and Hospitals

      The Wheelbarrow

      In the Land of Nod

      Down with Depression

      The Private and the President

      Every Pleasant Road (Goodness Is As Goodness Does)

      Adam Had a Garden

      Growing Up

      Just Who Do You Think You Are, Anyway?

      Slow Down

      A Day in the Life of Rev. Michael McKnight

      Runaway Horses

      (For Event Planners a ‘Speech Sampler CD’ is available.)

      Other speeches (besides those above): A New You for a New Year; Putting the Brakes on Speech Anxiety; Co-dependency 101 (People-pleasing)

      Laminated Table Mats

      A tasteful and attractive set of 6 inspirational mats, illustrated with colour nature scenes by the (late) photographer Bill Beekers of Hawkesbury (formerly of Dunnville), Ontario

      Laminated Posters

      A set of 8 humorous posters (8 ½ x 14) illustrated with black line drawings by professional artist Dorothy Wintle of Toronto, Ontario

      MURRAY’S OTHER BOOKS

      (Besides his two professionally-published books, these have been put together in his own printing shop, using black plastic comb bindings.)

      A Chair by the Fire:

      Stories to Warm the Heart and Soothe the Soul

      Comfort and Joy:

      Words and Pictures That Heal

      Favourite Poems

      In the Land of Nod:

      Are Dreams for Real?

      My Favourite Christmas Stories

      Thank You, Thomas!

      A Tribute to Three Common Saints

      The Little Money Book:

      For People Who Think They Have Too Little Money

      Want to Renovate Your Life?

      Recollections, Reflections, Meditations

      Words from the Bible When You Feel Discouraged

      Words from the Bible When You Feel Lost or Alone

      Murray’s Next Books to be published professionally

      Steel Buggy Wheels on a Hard Dirt Road

      Love Your Neighbour as Yourself — Not as Someone Else

      Our JUDGE Who Art in Heaven… : A Book on Hell

      Please e-mail murray@speakingtoinspire.com for more information.

      He is an ACS (Advanced Communicator Silver) Toastmaster.

      Murray Watson is a speaker with Triangle Seminars (triangleseminars.com).

      Contact Information:

      murray@speakingtoinspire.com

      www.speakingtoinspire.com

      705-778-1203

      Blessed are the merciful:

      for they shall obtain mercy.

      Matthew 5:7

      Murray C. Watson was born third in a farm family of seven near Havelock, Ontario. He is a retired teacher, published author, and an award-winning inspirational speaker. He uses his skills to share smiles, wisdom, and encouragement.

      Spending the first weeks of his life in SickKids Hospital with digestive problems, along with shyness, sleep apnea, and short-term memory loss (following drug treatment for depression in 1993 in a Toronto hospital), failed to cure him of his childhood dream — and greatest nightmare — to speak in public.

      Signature Speeches:

      Pills, Skills, or the Will? (on depression) and Finding Serenity Avenue.

      Favourite Feedback:

      I loved your speech. It was really eye-opening and helpful. I have heard many speeches related to depression, but this one was different. I felt connected. I am being very honest.

      – Saba, grade 9 student,

      Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute

      AUDIENCES AND READERS RESPOND

      Advance Praise for Daily Wisdom and Serenity:

      "I read it in one sitting — loved the quotes. I would like to pass it along to my Aunt Floss. She is 96 and a member of a really active church in Brantford. I am going to suggest they have you come and speak."

      – JUDY SUKE (Triangle Seminars), Motivational Humorist, Manuscript Developer and Author, College Professor

      "I’d like a copy of this book [Smiles, Wisdom and Encouragement].… Anything to help the Universe, and this will help."

      – DR. ALVIN PETTLE, MD, The Ruth Pettle Wellness Centre, Author of Rx / My Prescription for Life

      Thanks again for your excellent speech and most useful [Seven Steps to Serenity]. I am using them myself and spreading them to others.

      – PAM MOUNTAIN, Head of Toronto Public Library (Annette St. Branch)

      "Murray, I want to compliment you.… I’ve been battling a medical problem, and have to go into hospital tomorrow, and I haven’t been able to put your book [Want to Renovate Your Life?] down."

      – LES GROVES (1916-2007), ‘MR STANLEY,’ Hardware Industry Hall of Fame member

      Your delivery had such an emotional appeal [and] when it comes to humour, you’ve got it!

      – LILI DEJONG, St. Catharines Toastmasters Club

      Anyone who can raise laughter and tears in the same speech has the gift.

      – JOANNE, Naturally Speaking Toastmasters, Peterborough

      When I read your books, I feel like I’m in church listening to a comforting sermon.

      – RETA FLEMING, former teaching colleague, wife of a United Church minister

      Introduction

      by Murray C. Watson

      It wasn’t until the mother of my youngest nephew passed away at 52 years of age that it occurred to me that I ought to write a little book about depression. As you can see on the dedication page, it is to her memory and to her son that I offer this booklet. I wrote it with sad regret that she did not benefit from any encouragement and aid it might possibly have given her, but with sincere hope that it might be of some help to others.

      Perhaps my only credentials for writing such a book is having been in the dark dungeon of depression and anxiety myself. I recall the distressful early waking and unwelcome coming of morning, wanting to sleep all the time, feeling hopeless, overwhelmed, tired, difficulty concentrating, communicating little verbally, under-eating, physical under-activity, mental over-activity including questioning the value of staying alive, and always my attention on myself.

      Based on my own past experience with depression and anxiety, it seems to me that this last item—self-absorption—is the crux of depression and, as such, is an important key that can unlock the door out of the dark dungeon.

      If the above list of characteristics sounds anything like you or somebody you care about, then maybe you picked up this book for the right reason. If you or they suffer from depression, or you would like to avoid a relapse, or you wish to be prepared to talk with your doctor, or you’re healthy and looking for preventive maintenance, I believe this book can help.

      I’ve added two sections to the book that would’ve been helpful for me when I first came down with the malady. The first is a ‘Question and Answer’ segment and the second is a group of Helpful Quotations with some personal commentary.

      It’s my sincere hope that what I’ve tried to communicate will give you as much encouragement and hope as it has given me.

      —MW

      If Only Sleep Would Last Forever: Help for Depression and Anxiety

      When I hit bottom in the early summer of 1993, I was taken to the local hospital, without my consent, but with the assistance of the police. Later I was transferred, with my consent, to a Toronto hospital under the care of a psychiatrist. Coinciding with the end of a 25-year marriage, my time in hospital that year was the most dismal way I’d ever spent my summer holidays. At the time, I didn’t expect I’d ever write a book on depression.

      Nor did I then realize I was in rather celebrated company including Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Vincent Van Gogh the artist whose colours dazzled the painting world and whose struggle with darkness ended with suicide by gunshot, and Ron Ellis the dogged Toronto Maple Leaf hockey player who said that beating depression was harder than winning the Stanley Cup.

      I don’t know about you, but when I recently read C. S. Lewis’s description of his state of mind in some of his college years in his book Surprised by Joy, I knew he could have been describing me: "Consciousness itself was becoming the supreme evil; sleep, the prime good. To lie down, to be out of the sound

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