From Health magazine
Some British doctors are prescribing self-help books instead of drugs or traditional talk therapy for patients who are suffering from mild to moderate depression and anxiety. Under the program, patients take prescriptions to local libraries where they check out therapist-approved titles, such as Helen Kennerley’s Overcoming Anxiety: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques and The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns, MD.
Known as bibliotherapy, the practice is not for every patient, and it’s only as effective as the book that’s being read and the individual’s willingness to use it. In the United States, therapists practice bibliotherapy informally. But American psychologist Christine Padesky, PhD, whose best-selling book Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think is among the titles prescribed in Britain, says relapse rates for depression and anxiety would be significantly lower if more physicians prescribed “not just pills, but skills.”
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Comments (3)
The Feeling Good is one of my favourite handbook that help me mitigate depression. I have learnt from the book about the positive thinking. A person who possess a positive attitude leads a cheerful life.
For the past several years I have been taking St.John’s Wort as a mood elevator. Perhaps it is all in my head, but I do believe it makes me calmer and less likely to be stressed by everyday life. Am I convincing myself of this ir is it possibly true?
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