Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

You feel depressed because of what you think, not because of what happened to you. That claim sits at the heart of cognitive therapy, and it flips two thousand years of common sense on its head. As Epictetus said, people are disturbed “not by things, but by the views we take of them.” When you feel terrible, you assume the world is terrible — but David Burns shows that your internal monologue is running predictable errors, and those errors, not your circumstances, generate the despair. Write the thought down, name the mistake, answer it, and the emotion loses its footing.

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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy