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Summary: I use it with chronically mentally ill patients. It works.
Review: I use this book in groups and in bibliotherapy for my patients. I find it is simple enough that most people don't have difficulty with understanding it. I also enjoy the examples and exercises that Burns uses. This is a very useful book for people who want to feel better.
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Summary: SAVED MY LIFE AND MARRIGE LIFE TO
Review: I SUFFERED ALOT AFTER MARRIGE AND A DOCTOR IN ISREAL TOLD ME TO BUY THE BOOK AFTER SEEING MY WIFE AND WORKED WITH HER ON COGNTIVE THERPY I READ THE BOOK IT HELPED ME TO UNDERSTAND HER PROPLAM AND TO MAKE ME LIVE MY LIFE WITH OUT SUFFERING FOR NO GOOD REASON
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Summary: Excellent book -- use in conjunction w/ therapy
Review: This book truly helped me turn my life around. It has practical examples that will help you change the way that you perceive life experiences. I found it to be an invaluable reference in conjunction with a therapist and medication. A small investment guranteed to provide a high value return. (non-disclaimer: I do not work for either the publisher, a therapist, or a pharmaceutical company).
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Summary: A tremendous confidence booster ,yes I can rejoin the living
Review: Thank you David Burns. As a chronic suffer of Agoraphopia and intence anticipatory anxiety (panic) this book as abled me to to grasp hope and and therefore grasp living with a true sence of fighting irrational fears . I had no idea what I told myself inside so greatly affected the way I saw the world once...dark and gloomy fear . Easy step by step instruction, HANDS ON exercises , I literally use this book as my bible. I always find ways to use it as a resourse for dealing with everyday problems that provoke anxiety and panic.From being a precription junky , now to a David Burns junkie, thank you for the real hope, the real understanding and the real success! This is a real must have book for those like me whose world became so small due to Agoraphobia. Care to fly with me? The jets about to leave!
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Summary: This book can save you much mental suffering.
Review: I'll tell you right upfront, I have a melancholy/perfectionist/depressive personality. I was born with it, I will die with it. There are millions of others like me on this planet. At age 50, I don't see me essentially changing much. But this book CLEARLY can show you how distorted thoughts, just plain, simple, untrue thoughts, are the source of much of your misery. Also a wonderful book to help you deal with anger in your life. If I had to choose one book to take with me to that proverbial Desert Island, it would be this one, without a doubt.
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Summary: What you really need for feeling good RIGTH NOW.
Review: Do you think you currently need something you don't or will not have in order to be happy and then feel good? Maybe you need money? or a girlfriend? perhaps love? or aproval? probably success? perfection? recognition? maybe justice? to really be happy. If so, then you should take a look at this book. Maybe you reflect about your own belief system. Probably you will understand why you are never satisfied (nor happy). Of course you will learn to feel good, understand the meaning of your worth, create your own self-esteem, grow your self-confidence, and ultimately enjoy each and every moment of your life. Are you prepared? are you open minded? Do you want to change? do you want to challenge your principles and determine the true? *** Does life really have a meaning, or is it you who can give meaning to life? ***
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Makes you feel good the moment you start reading it. Really reassuring and down to earth.
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Summary: This is THE BEST Self-help book: Read, use, feel better!
Review: As a psychologist, I recommend this book to about 90% of my patients. Everyone could use the information from this book in their lives, no matter how good he or she may feel. It helps you see how other people may talk themselves into a bad mood as well. This book has very practicle applications on how to increase self-esteem, feel better about self-worth and jobs, get over a bad relationship, and learn how to choose how to think and feel in the future. Another good book for couples is Beck's book on "Love is Never Enough", about assumptions we make in relationships and how they affect how we feel about each other
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Summary: It is definetly helpful
Review: I have had the book for a while now. I've been on an anti-depressant for about eight months. I suspect the reason that I am understanding the ideas in "Feelin Good" now may be partly because of the effects of my anti-depressant. I just don't know yet. I suddenly got the idea, "Oh my God, it's not what is happening outside me, it's what I am saying to myself about it." If I keep reading the book and applying it I do well. Some of the ideas stay with me and some I still need to refer back to. I also have noticed that using the cognitive techniques kind of clears away the "surface clutter" and other things will come to the surface. Which leaves me wondering if I have kept my mind busy as a way to contain memories, etc. Another book that is good is "Talking to Yourself" by Pamela Butler.
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Summary: The world as seen from within...
Review: What I find highly fascinating about cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is how similar it is to classical mysticism. Here in the self-pitying, shallow, materialistic West, people often are heard characterizing someone something with some explicative when said person or thing doesn't live up to their expectations whether at home, work or the freeway Why?In an age of instant gratification with road rage due to over population; psychological issues at home, work or the nightclub, most if not all of us, at least here in the West, seem to have been covertly indoctrinated into a philosophy of learned helplessness, happiness comes from without, and self-entitlement. Although calling it a philosophy however is not fair, for philosophy implies a well though-out process. In this case it's more of a mindless knee-jerk reaction. Why do so many react that way? Commercials tell us that we cannot ever be happy unless we have the biggest house, the biggest SUV, the hottest date and the fattest bank account. Unless you buy such and such beauty products, smoke this cigarette, wear the most expensive designer cloths...you're not worthy. Being yourself isn't good enough-that's what they want you to believe. Why? Simple: A satisfied person with high self-esteem is a person who doesn't spend an endless fortune on the latest and greatest icons of conspicuous consumption. But these things don't fill the void within so as consumers we spend another fortune on self-help seminars, allopathic healthcare, endless psychotherapy and superficial beauty products for people with superficial values. That's what the manufactures and advertisers want. Why? Simple, via the imposed attitudes of learned helplessness, "happiness comes from without" and self-entitlement, you've just become a perpetual customer for life. "Happiness comes from within." How many times have you heard that one or read it on a plaque in a store somewhere? Yet how many times do our actions reveal our opposite, truer and much darker true philosophy? Was so and so really a jerk just because they wouldn't date us? Do you go around sermonizing with your single friends that your perfect mate better be this and this and that or else? Have you ever once stopped to consider what YOU might give, do and be to be worthy enough to be with someone so perfect? If you haven't then chances are you've never deserved such a perfect person or indeed life. And yet if you've unconsciously assimilated and accepted the covert philosophies of self-entitlement and happiness as an external-only source then your behavior is perfectly logical. Why? If one is brain washed into thinking that you cannot help yourself, only other people/things can give you happiness, and that anyone who denies you those people/things deserves your very worst, then isn't it logical that they will be angry, resentful and perhaps even violent. And if that doesn't work they'll sink into depression, for the only logical conclusion left to learned helplessness is that they have no power over their lives, and some may even commit suicide because of it. Sound familiar? Take a look at this book then. Pay particular attention to the sections on guilt, anger and irrational self-entitlement attitudes if any of the above resonates with you. But be sure to read the first section first so you know what they're talking about. And pass it on if it reminds you of anyone. I am getting tired of all the rude drivers out, self-righteous singles on the talk shows and the cheap corporate manipulation on television.
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