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In my efforts to overcome my depression and social anxiety I found that these two books were of tremendous help. Read the reviews,  perhaps ask for an opinion from your therapist, or just take my word for it. But you MUST read them!

Stop Thinking, Start Living: Discover Lifelong Happiness  by Richard Carlson

 Do yourself a favor… buy this book today – and start living (Should be available on the National Health Service!), October 5, 2007
By R. MACKENZIE (Oxford UK) This review is from: Stop Thinking, Start Living: Discover Lifelong Happiness (Paperback)

Reading this book was for me an experience to cherish. It is simply the best self-help book that I have read in years. In fact I think that it would be hard to beat.

As a therapist and author myself I certainly understand just how negative life can become for people who do not understand that they are fully in control or their lives and their own neurology.

The most import aspect about ‘Stop Thinking, Start Living’ is that Richard Carlson delivers his important message in a very simple way that simply just reading it will change your life forever – and thats no over exaggeration.

There are some problems with the title such as a few typos and the repetition, however some people need to be told more than just once so this is not really such a bad thing.

I truly believe that if you suffer from depression, anxiety or negativity then this book is the hidden gem that you have been searching for. I only wish that they made it available on the NHS, there would certainly be a lot more smiley people around.

It really is a must read for sufferers of these crippling issues and their therapists could learn a lot from reading it too!

Richard Carlson really does explain in a common sense way something that is life altering. It seems so believable and this is down to the fact that it is. He explains what happens to our minds when we get stressed, depressed and negative. More importantly he gives us the solution that we need to get the lives that we deserve. It is some simple you will have wondered why you didn’t this of it yourself!

Just a word of warning – The book is about 180 pages long, but it is one of those titles that makes you feel that you are taking steps towards your goal with each page that you read. You will find it hard to put down when you start reading!

Do yourself a favor… buy this book today – and start living.

Warmly,

Richard MacKenzie
Author of Self-Change Hypnosis

Change Your Thinking: Overcome Stress, Anxiety, and Depression, and Improve Your Life with CBT   by Sarah Edelman

 Very readable and useful self-help manual, March 31, 2008
By Beth Cholette “doctor_beth” (Upstate NY USA)
This review is from: Change Your Thinking: Overcome Stress, Anxiety, and Depression, and Improve Your Life with CBT (Paperback)
As a clinical psychologist, I am a strong believer in the impact of thinking on emotions, and thus many of my interventions with my own clients are cognitive in nature. The premise of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is that the way we think determines the way we feel, and this book Change Your Thinking, is a self-help manual designed to address stress, anxiety, depression, and other emotional concerns through the use CBT. At the heart of CBT is the ability to recognize faulty thinking. The author describes the typical thinking errors which were originally identified by Aaron Beck in his ground-breaking book Cognitive Therapy of Depression; these include polarized (black-and-white) thinking, overgeneralizing, personalizing, filtering, jumping to (negative) conclusions, mind reading, blaming, labeling, predicting catastrophe, and comparing.

After Edelman has coached the reader in becoming adept at increasing awareness of negative thinking patterns, she moves on to the process of disputing negative and irrational beliefs; she then applies the disputation techniques to various types of concerns. Throughout the book, Edelman offers exercises to help readers apply the concepts which she has presented. Although Edelman borrows from the work of various giants in the field of psychology, she presents this information in a manner that is extremely accessible to the average reader and that is also appropriate to a self-help format. Given this, I highly recommend Change Your Thinking as a means for the general reader to apply the principles of CBT to their own lives. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 

 5.0 out of 5 stars I never thought a book could make such a difference!.
By Riana – See all my reviewsThis review is from: Change Your Thinking: Overcome Stress, Anxiety, and Depression, and Improve Your Life with CBT (Paperback)
Normally I don’t think books like this are very helpful, but Change Your Thinking is really helping me to change my life. When I started reading it, I immediately felt like I could get back in control and actually improve what I had accepted as the status quo. The author gives a lot of simple tips that WORK, and the exercises are a big help. This is something that you need to commit to, but if you read this book and make even a tiny effort to pay attention to your thoughts you’ll notice a difference.

I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone with depression or anxiety (I suffer from both).