The book recounts the personal story of survival and overcoming of one of the deadliest diseases pervading modern societies i.e. depression. The author describes in the most personalised manner the onset of the disease and the circumstances in which it evolved to finally overwhelm him with its whole power.
In this story the author shares his experiences and struggle with the readers to show and prove that the conventional methods of treating depression often turn out to be rather ineffective and that it is possible to get over this disease by unorthodox means using the self-healing powers of our minds and bodies that should be reinforced by the healing power of nature. To this end the author encourages the reader to undertake their own efforts to revive their willpower and resort to natural stressors such as cold, meditative and mindful breathing, ice swimming etc. to break free from depression's hold for good. In this way the disease being the obstacle paradoxically becomes our way towards recovery. Namely, depression allows us to find our inner potential to treat ourselves.
The author who tested many hormetic factors hidden in nature is a walking evidence proving that the influence of mother nature (or rather its vis medicatrix naturae) and comeback to our evolutionary self-healing mechanisms in our bodies can lead to full recovery from this mental disease. It is a fascinating story covering two years of battling against the disease in which the author slowly found out that recovering does not lie in taking ineffective antidepressants and waiting idly for a doctor's advice but in reviving our own powerful self-healing nature-based doctor. The doctor that only needs to be reawakened by mother nature's healing potential. It is up to the readers if they would want to follow this path of reigniting this power within us leading to recovery and regained life's happiness.