Feeling Good The New Mood Therapy

The most common book that I give to my patients is called Feeling good by dr David Burns who I'm actually scheduled to have a conversation with the next month kind of on the forefront of the development of CBT and talking about how our cognitive distortions which are natural emotional reasoning part of our brain that we're all susceptible to can sometimes go too far and drive these symptoms of anxiety and depression in us and How that therapy can actually help an individual and what I like about cognitive behavioral therapy and why I've been on board on it on the Recommending it for such a long time is that not only is the evidence for it great that it works But it's also really rational. It's very reasonable a lot of people think when we say therapy There's some kind of woo involved in it and I say woo in quotes because it's not really woo It's just a very practical way of thinking and it doesn't mean that therapy is not going to make you Feel it's not gonna remove all anxiety or all depressive symptoms It the goal of it is to recapture some control So that when you do feel anxiety doesn't take you to that really dark place that when you do feel depressed You don't go to that dark place and it's really a way of giving you back that layer of control.

One of the bestselling books if you're feeling depressed or anxious and you don't have a cognitive behavioral therapist that you can go to one-on-one, you could buy Feeling Good by David Burns.