Feeling Good: The New Mood TherapyThe good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life. Now, in this updated edition, Dr. Burns adds an All-New Consumer′s Guide To Anti-depressant Drugs as well as a new introduction to help answer your questions about the many options available for treating depression. - Recognise what causes your mood swings - Nip negative feelings in the bud - Deal with guilt - Handle hostility and criticism - Overcome addiction to love and approval - Build self-esteem - Feel good everyday |
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How to Beat | 81 |
Learn to Talk Back When | 131 |
The Cause of It All | 261 |
The Approval Addiction | 290 |
The Love Addiction | 311 |
COPING WITH THE | 407 |
THE CHEMISTRY OF MOOD | 425 |
Commonly Prescribed Anti | 474 |
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The Complete Consumers Guide | 513 |
Notes and References Chapters 17 to 20 | 682 |
Suggested Resources | 688 |
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Page 42 - ... some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences. 5. JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. a. Mind reading. You arbitrarily conclude that someone is reacting negatively to you, and you don't bother to check this out. b. The Fortune Teller Error.
Page 56 - When in his exacerbation of self-criticism he describes himself as petty, egoistic, dishonest, lacking in independence, one whose sole aim has been to hide the weaknesses of his own nature, for all we know it may be that he has come very near to self-knowledge ; we can only wonder why a man must become ill before he can discover truth of this kind...
Page 56 - The patient represents his ego to us as worthless, incapable of any achievement and morally despicable; he reproaches himself, vilifies himself and expects to be cast out and punished.
Page 43 - I feel it, therefore it must be true." 8. SHOULD STATEMENTS 9. LABELING AND MISLABELING This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself: "I'ma loser...
Page 42 - If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure. 2. Overgeneralization: You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat. 3. Mental filter: You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water. 4. Disqualifying the positive: You reject positive experiences by insisting they "don't count
Page 42 - binocular trick.” 7. EMOTIONAL REASONING: You assume that your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are: “I feel it, therefore it must be true.
Page 43 - Musts and oughts are also offenders. The emotional consequence is guilt. When you direct should statements toward others, you feel anger, frustration, and resentment. 9. Labeling and mislabeling: This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself: "I'ma loser.
Page 56 - It would be equally fruitless from a scientific and a therapeutic point of view to contradict a patient who brings these accusations against this ego. He must surely be right in some way and be describing something that is as it seems to him to be true.
Page 28 - Our research reveals the unexpected: depression is not an emotional disorder at all! The sudden change in the way you feel is of no more causal relevance than a runny nose is when you have a cold. Every bad feeling you have is the result of your distorted negative thinking.
Page 42 - You reject positive experiences by insisting they “don't count” for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences.