Zoom Doom. Your Doom is Zoom.I have to zoom teach all day. So I will wait.
Drinking doesn't make me drunk when I teach, it compromises my cognitive firepower .
Don't ask me how I know this.
I need what cognitive firepower I have left to deal with 25 18 year olds in a zoom.
Feeling Great by the great psychiatrist David Burns, MD is out today.
Amazon.com: Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety eBook: D. Burns, David: Kindle Store
Amazon.com: Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety eBook: D. Burns, David: Kindle Store
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The antidepressant effects of Feeling Good have since been confirmed in many published studies. For example, Dr. Forrest Scogin from the University of Alabama reported that if you simply hand a copy of this book to individuals seeking treatment for moderate to severe depression, 65% of them will recover or improve substantially within four weeks without any other treatment. In addition, two- and three-year follow-up studies have revealed that these individuals continue to improve on their own without psychotherapy or antidepressant medications. Many other researchers have since confirmed that the effects of Feeling Good “bibliotherapy” (reading therapy) are comparable to the effects of anti-depressant medications or psychotherapy. These findings are exciting because a paperback copy of Feeling Good is far cheaper than treatment with drugs or psychotherapy, and there are no side effects!
But what about the other side of the coin? What about the 35% who didn’t recover or improve after reading Feeling Good? Why did they remain stuck? How did they differ from the people who recovered in four weeks? I thought if I could figure that out, then it might lead to another treatment breakthrough. After conducting thousands of therapy sessions with individuals struggling with severe depression and anxiety, and publishing many research studies to learn why psychotherapy succeeds or fails, I believe I found the answer, and that’s why I’ve written Feeling Great. In contrast to Feeling Good, which was all about the cognitive revolution, this book is all about the motivation revolution. It is based on the simple idea that we sometimes get “stuck” in depression and anxiety because we have mixed feelings about recovery. Although we may be suffering and desperately want to change, there may be powerful conflicting forces that keep us stuck. As strange as this might sound, part of you may fight against—or resist—the very change you’re yearning for.
This is what Freud called “resistance” way back at the beginning of psychoanalysis. Although most therapists since Freud have given lip service to resistance, very few (if any) have explained why we resist change or how to solve this problem. And that’s where this book comes in: Through a new approach called TEAM-CBT, you can overcome this resistance and achieve recovery quickly. The TEAM approach evolved from my clinical experience and research on how psychotherapy actually works. It preserves all the best elements of CBT described in my first book, but it works much faster.
D. Burns, David. Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety (p. 16). PESI Publishing & Media. Kindle Edition.