When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life

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	When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life David D. Md Burns Broadway, 2007 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

20 years later-no new cognitive distortions have been found

It probably sounds somewhat dramatic, but I can only recall two self-help books that had a drastic effect on my life-by giving me a reasonable relief from anxiety and depression. The first one, Mind over Mood, by Greenberger and the second one, Feeling Good Workbook by Dr. Burns. Both of these books are based on solid research, reason and practicality.

Almost 20 years since his workbook was written, Dr. Burns has finally written another book. To my disappointment and relief, it looks like he has nothing major to report. The good news is that after all these years of cognitive therapy evolution, there are still only 10 types of cognitive distortions. The bad news is that it takes only 10 to manage a perfect job to make you miserable.

Cognitive therapy is based on the premise that our own automatic unnoticed thoughts WITHIN us, not the events that happen TO US, scare us to death and create a warped reality and provide fertile conditions for depression, anxiety, self-doubt, loneliness and procrastination. Virtually everyone who is depressed or anxious has these distorted thoughts. To get a relief, each distorted thought must be dealt with. As you can't relieve your hunger by just reading a cookbook, you must apply it to your own situation for at least 15 minutes a day 5 days a week. Once learned and practiced, the technique will offer you resilience to life's day-to-day challenges, unlike the antidepressants where the relief exists only while you take them.

Burns lists various applications to become aware, challenge and rewire your thought pattern and beliefs about yourself and the world. There is no magic, no parent-blaming, just common sense stuff dealing with the here-and-now.

What is so valuable here is Dr. Burn's clear and well-organized writing, his convincing arguments, along with the examples of application that anyone can find an immediate use.

What sets this book apart from other self-help books is that it's packaged into a system one can use in a consistent way. Moreover, the improvements one feels can actually be measured with various tests that Burns provides. Once I saw it worked after years of doom and suffering, I dared to feel hopeful. This added to my feeling good.

If I were to find faults with this book,I'd say this: in all honesty, there really was no need for this book at all. True, in this book he struggles to find some new ways to tackle problems to justify the new edition, and true, there is some fine-tuning of the previous methods, however, non-essential ones. Feeling Good Workbook is so effective, in my opinion, it has all you'll ever need, which is enough to make a substantial change.

In the end, each Burn's book can stand on its own, and will do a perfect job to diminish panic, depression and anxiety (all have distorted thinking as their basic element).

Even though the system might sound a bit simplistic, its power lies in consistency of application-easier said than done for someone who is depressed and unmotivated and does not see clearly-but it does become easier if you find it within yourself to stick with it.

If this is pretty much the same book as the one written 20 years ago, why am I giving it 5 stars? It's very simple: If you are a person whose life has been robbed of feeling good for decades, any of Dr. Burns' books, be it this one or the ones published 20 years ago, offers a real tool for change, and this fact alone, deserves all the stars in the skies.

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I just ordered it and I'm looking forward to read it and make good use out of it.
David Burns doesn't need any recomendations. All his previous books are excellent.

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