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Topic: The Feeling Good Handbook

tsol25
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Posted: 1:18 PM, June 26th (Sunday), 2011

My IC suggested I read this book (by David D. Burns M.D)to learn and find ways to help my anxiety. Just wondering if anyone had read it and had any feedback on it.

me - tsol, that's all for now

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boudicca
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Posted: 1:42 PM, June 26th (Sunday), 2011

I can't say enough good things about this workbook. It was recommended to me when it first came out and it has helped me as much as anything else I have done.

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dreamlife
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Posted: 3:14 PM, June 26th (Sunday), 2011

Thanks for sharing. I'm going to check it out.

~XWH told me what I wanted to hear but he always did whatever he wanted to do~

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formerlyteflon
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Posted: 3:27 PM, June 26th (Sunday), 2011

I used this a few years ago and found it somewhat helpful but didn't really get into it. I went to a different cognitive-behavior therapist - my favorite IC of all time - and she recommended Mind Over Mood instead of the FG handbook. Changed my life.

“There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can’t know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you’ve reached it."

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dreamlife
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Posted: 8:14 PM, July 3rd (Sunday), 2011

I ordered the book (used, but like new) and it has arrived!

~XWH told me what I wanted to hear but he always did whatever he wanted to do~

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tsol25
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Posted: 1:12 PM, July 4th (Monday), 2011

dreamlife,
Let me know what you think of it. I'm ...a few chapter in. I've been neglecting it this weekend but it's been good so far.

me - tsol, that's all for now

Posts: 1208 | Registered: Aug 2010 | From: Canada

Hope24
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Posted: 4:30 PM, July 4th (Monday), 2011

This book has been sitting on my shelf for well over a year and I decided to dust it off because of this thread.

The exercises are extensive, but I'm at the part where you diagnose your moods, identify the distorted thoughts and re-frame rational responses.

Worked pretty well when I went through a bout of anxiety earlier today.

She packed up her potential and all she had learned and headed out to change a few things.

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