This book will teach how to manage depression through Acceptance and Responsibility Therapy (ACT). This approach has shown good clinical results, and the effect after such treatment lasts for a long time. Practical guidance will help develop awareness and acceptance of your own feelings and emotions to reduce self-criticism and set priorities in life. All these principles are extremely important for a successful exit from depression. The book contains a number of basic provisions of the ACT, which are illustrated by the stories of real people who defeated depression. The authors of the book help to evaluate mindfulness skills and draw up a plan for their gradual development. This guide also contains exercises to develop an understanding of a particular problem, and trains key skills in the fight against depression. Life with depression can be hopeless and empty. There may not even be enough strength to ask for help, or you are trying to drown out your feelings all the time. But such tactics are completely useless in the fight against depression. What if you use depression as an opportunity to change your life for the better? After all, symptoms of depression often signal that your life needs a change. But where do you start? This completely rewritten and updated second edition of the book offers step-by-step help to work out (rather than avoid) aspects of your life that are depressing. The methods and tools in this book are based on Acceptance and Responsibility Therapy (ACT). This approach will help assess the severity of depression and create an individual treatment plan.