Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety

My husband has been in the mental health field his whole career. He is raving about this book. We bought some copies for friends. It’s the real deal to help you !

I started to read this book out of curiosity, after a setback I had with anxiety, 2 months ago. I somehow knew how CBT works and the methods and tools used in this therapy; was initially reluctant to believe that these methods can “fix” quickly something like anxiety, which for me was a very big of a deal! I started slowly to read and most important, APPLY these techniques. Honestly, I found quite a few distortions in my thoughts, and was surprise how much garbage we have accumulated in our minds! No wonder that we feel the way we feel - very bad! I could not believe: anxiety almost vanished in few weeks. Right now, when I’m writing this, I feel so calm and peaceful!I’ve seen some people here writing kinda negative reviews (just a few); but these reviews are without support or evidence. As a sufferer, I can confirm that CBT works pretty well all the time. And I think that a sufferer has a louder voice to confirm this, than any scientist that never experienced anxiety! Period! many scientist talk BS about therapy and this because they don’t know how anxiety works! Really! They know only by what they’ve seen as symptoms at some sufferers and that is only 1%.We, the people who know how anxiety feels like and who learnt the hard way how to resolve it, we can confirm that this method works 100%.And more important: Dr. Burns experienced many forms of anxiety himself, so who anyone else knows better than him what is anxiety? :)What helped me also was: exercising, vitamins&minerals, better hydration, yoga (breathing exercises)Stop believing the BS that anxiety disorder is incurable and u have to live with it for the rest of your life!

My therapist recommended me to read this book. I recommend it 100%. It is easy to read and can help you since the first day reading.

Dr Burns' Feeling Good book literally saved my life when I found it back in 1986 as a college student. I can't imagine what my life would have been like if I had never found it.In the years since, I have carried my original dog-eared paperback copy everywhere, using it for tune-ups whenever I needed it, and bought just about everything else Dr Burns has ever written. However, although certain distorted thought patterns (mostly related to low self esteem) disappeared for me almost literally overnight when I first read the book and were easy to defeat whenever they threatened to sneak back, with some other patterns I felt eternally stuck. I'm still a perfectionist, I still procrastinate, I still feel the urge to make everyone else happy even when it makes me exhausted. I would do the original exercises, and they would help a bit, but never like the old breakthrough.The tools in this new book have given me hope for the first time in years that I can get unstuck in those few areas I've never been able to successfully address. Positive reframing offers a tool to analyze where you might be feeling resistance and how you can overcome that resistance. The dizzying array of techniques and the charts to help choose which techniques may be especially effective for which distortions have given me a lot more ammunition to tackle stubborn negative thoughts that don't respond to a first attempt.I have a lot of work to do on myself but during what is probably the worst year of our lives for many of us, this book is yet again a lifesaver. If you struggle with any form of depression or anxiety, you owe yourself a chance to feel much, much better.BTW I bought the Kindle version first but I'm going to order the hardback as well because it is that good. Nothing wrong with the Kindle version, sometimes you just want a physical book to hold.

I’m so thankful for this book. Have struggled with depression and anxiety for over ten years. Tried many therapists and medications. The most recent struggle has been postpartum depression and anxiety and my newest therapist recommended David Burns. This has been extremely helpful so far in helping me feel better and I love the measurement so I can see exactly how I am doing and improving. This and the podcast has been transformative!

Our mind guides us, and when it is confused we are doomed, Dr. Burns has covered this complex topic in a very structured way, we all knew everything he wrote in this book but we never thought that way. Read the book daily for 2 hours, do the exercises and I am sure it will help a lot, surely it is not a miracle cure, but it does the job very well.

Update: My improvement has been exponential to what I reported in my original review after just 10 days of working thru. I am falling short of words to describe the relief. Nobody needs to waste decades of precious time struggling with Depression, Stuckness, Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, Addictions, Relationship issues and the likes when there is a way to bring in lasting change in matter of days. I strongly recommend. Go for it!!Thanks ton Dr. Burns, I am Indebted.Y N Shravan KumarOriginl review from October 2020:I have been struggling with Depression and Anxiety of high intensity for over 12 years now and have tried varied treatments with barely enough improvement. I've read and worked through this book for last 10 days , and it has really opened new possibilities which I never even dared to hope for. I am not cured totally in these 10 days, but it's the longest leap I've had in the process of recovering from Anxiety and depression. Thank you so much Dr. Burns. I am indebted for what you shared here. Highly recommend for anyone suffering to give this a try.

This book is more helpful than other CBT books because of it’s unique emphasis on firstly reframing negative emotions as manifestations of the most positive and wonderful things about you. For example, if you are depressed about not getting along with a family member, this shows that you deeply care about your relationship with them. in fact, what would it say about you if you didn’t feel upset about conflict? It would mean that you didn’t care. Or, if you get anxious about an upcoming talk, it means you really have high standards and want to do a great job. Not being anxious might mean you don’t prepare properly. Then it uses powerful tools to dial down these emotions to an appropriate level. Clear, powerful - a game changer.

Very positive book promising rapid treatment for depression and anxiety, through Cognitive Behaviour Therapy exercises. Burns is very supportive and enthusiastic, which makes me hopeful about the efficacy of the methods.As an e-book this book is a bit challenging as many pages are intended as exercises to be written in, but you can't do that in a Kindle! The Daily Mood Journal is available as a printable download, with the URL included in the book. However, Recovery Circles are not available. It would be great if there was a companion set of printables for all the worksheets and cheat sheets available for download and printing.Most of the tables are also poorly rendered in ebook format making them challenging to read. Reducing the font size may help.Books like this need a special design effort for the eBook version.

I bought the first Feeling Good book in 1995 and bought this as a refresher and the other is falling apart. It saved my life. Still grateful to Dr. Burns, his book, and helpful exercises. It will work if you do the exercises and not just read. A third into reading, I might prefer my older version, but that's just me.