To reduce virus transmission, millions people asked to drastically reduce social contact. Dealing with uncertainty during pandemic that leads people feel anxious about when this pandemic will end or if life will ever return again, helpless feeling during quarantine may set the possibility of triggering depression.

According to https://www.alodokter.com/depresi, you have depression when you have these following symptoms for at least two weeks: feel hopeless, sad, and worthless followed by frustrated, emotionally unstable, and experiencing excessive anxiety.

Hence, there are good positive ways to keep your mind busy like reading a book. These following self-help books recommendation may lead you to think positively due to this uncertainty pandemic.

1. Everything is F*cked: A Book about Hope

Right after successful of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson, again invites readers to understand true meaning behind happiness, freedom, and hope through this book, Everything is F*cked: A Book about Hope. Manson also invites readers to see clearly their relations as human beings with plenty things that always happen in this circle of life including politics, religions, money, and internet (entertainment) which apparently can affect psychological side causing discomfort feeling that lead people think when this uncertainty conditions change.

2. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

Related to her psychological state, Baek Se-hee shared the medical treatment notes into a book named I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki. The 12-week consultation was poured into chapters in her book which mostly contain conversations between Se-hee and her psychiatrist. See-he was diagnosed with dysthymia, a continuous long-term (chronic) form of depression. Through this book, she gave a great idea of the importance of self-love and to be at peace with your own self which most times make people feel uneasy for no specific reason. In South Korea, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki became one of the best sellers self-help books because it came out with plenty advices to help readers love themselves no matter what the circumstances are.

3. 10% Happier

Dan Harris, anchor of Nightline, told his funny, unexpected, even skeptical life story through this 10% Happier book. After experienced a panic attack while presented Good Morning America, Harris found himself having ‘strange adventures’. Until he thought source of his problem of the entire time was a voice that constantly echoed in his head that lead panic and pushed him to continue making bad decisions. Later, Harris found an effective way to ‘conquer’ that voice, meditation which also effective for get rid of stress.   

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