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Which Book Will Help Me the Most?

Which Book Will Help Me the Most?

Dear Dr. Burns I suffer from social anxiety and depression. I feel that I don’t need to see a therapist and believe that CBT will be enough to help me. I have purchased three of your books: The Feeling Good Handbook, Ten Days to Self Esteem and Intimate...

Is Suicide Justified?

Dear Doctor David, I read your book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, with much interest. I think almost all what you say still applies today. But I have a question: in the book when you discuss suicide, you don’t mention physical pain as a reason. I...

Problems with Antidepressant Withdrawal

Hi Dr. Burns, I know this will probably not be read by Dr. Burns but I’m having serious difficulty tapering off my antidepressants that I’ve taken for eight years. I’ve used Dr. Burns techniques for anxiety and mild depression and I feel I’m...

Does Mental Illness Exist?

Hi Dr. Burns, I am halfway through “feeling good”, I just want to say how powerful it is. It is absolutely fantastic so far. I am applying your techniques to myself. Do you mind me asking, and this is nothing to do with my health, is the whole idea of low...