Cognitive Behavior Therapy has been a widely used, yet little heard of technique for handling depression, anxiety, anger, frustration, and other mental health issues. Thoughts and Feelings attempts to bring these tools to a wider audience, providing clear paths to rising up out of the fog, and back into the real world.
Most books on depression and anxiety focus on finding the root cause, but never give much in the way of dealing with it once you discover the underlying cause. Thoughts and Feelings goes that step further, providing realistic, extremely effective tools for coping with difficult situations, such as "Thought Stopping" which helps stop obsessive thinking, or "Coping During Exposure" a tool for mentally walking yourself through a stressful situation, as it happens.
These tools have proven themselves invaluable to me over the course of my healing, and I am grateful for this book, and pointing me in the direction of CBT.
If you have been wandering around jumping from therapist to therapist, in search of answers to helping rid yourself of depression, phobias, anxiety or other related issues, this book offers a ray of light, and real world solutions through CBT.
Though Thoughts and Feelings is intended to be used in conjunction with a therapist (like I did), there is much to be learned by reading it on your own, perhaps as a jumping off point, to get started on the path to a more balanced you.
CBT is an in depth, and quite intense mode of therapy, and Thoughts and Feelings is chock full of good information to take with you, after the sessions are over.