Depressed & Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression & Anxiety

by Thomas Marra

Book Overview

As if coping with feelings of depression or anxiety by themselves weren't difficult enough, clinical research suggests that as many as 60 percent of depression sufferers concurrently experience some kind of anxiety disorder. If you are in this group, it is quite common to simultaneously experience profound loss of energy and initiative along with substantial stress and anxiety. Caught between the push and pull of these two conditions, you might find...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572243635
• ISBN13: 9781572243637
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

A little more

What I like about this workbook is that it does offer a little more text and science and I like that cognitive aspect of it. Behavioral therapy feels like I'm trying to trick myself and feels more manipulative. If I know what behavior I'm trying to change, and here are some good ways to go about it, and then here's some things I can try in the heat of the moment, then it's a choice I am making. The cognitive approaches of behavioral therapy are what work for me. There are other simpler workbooks (and good too) for a different audience like Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life.

excellent book

I think this book is excellent. It takes a lot of fortitude and energy to do it but the results are well worth it.

A very good explanation of DBT

Although it is called Depressed & Anxious, it does provide a complete explanation of DBT. Once again its a workbook and if you buy this workbook you need to follow the instructions to get the most out of it. DBT isn't easy but its worth trying.

A very useful book

I have suggested this workbook to many of my patients. While some of them were too depressed to complete it at first, when they have been able to get throught it, nearly all have found that they learned a lot about themselves and their feelings. Even more importantly, they learned valuable ways to change their thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Decreased depression and anxiety were the result..

Excellent therapy for depression and anxiety consumers

I'm the webowner of Mental Health Today. The author has taken dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) which was originally used for borderline personality disorder consumers and prepared it for the use of consumers who experience anxiety and depression disorders. The book is excellent! Workbook filled with wonderful exercises. It's about time DBT has been claimed to assist other disorders and has been done so well in this book. Highly recommend!