Title: An Invaluable Resource for Depressives
Product review: I think Feeling Good has been AS valuable as therapy and medication both for my seasonal depression and my one bout of severe clinical depression during which I was suicidal. I don't see Dr. Burns as disputing the notion that depression has a physical component (i.e. brain chemistry) but he addresses the modes of thinking that amplify that effect and worsen our depression. It's obvious to me from reading the book repeatedly that he advocates throwing everything you've got at severe depression. Given that you can't be in the therapy office 24/7, the book is for those times when you are alone with the critical and self destructive voice in your head. Changing that voice to work for you instead of against you is what his book is all about.Depression may start with brain chemistry, but under the influence of that chemistry we develop self destructive patterns of thought. While we address the chemistry we cannot ignore the other half of the equation.
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