The reasons for suicide can be complex depending on the person. From personal experience, I can say that it has to do with someone feeling a lot of pain coupled with the desire to escape that pain.
Of course, your thinking, as Dr. David Burns points out in his “Feel Good Handbook” (which I highly recommend to anyone suffering from depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts or plans) is often distorted at those moments. Your thoughts of hopelessness, sadness, guilt, etc. can overwhelm you. Still, Dr. Burns through a cognitive therapy approach makes clear that our thoughts and attitudes create our feelings.
The good news is that we can control our thoughts and by them our feelings through an inventory of our thinking. Once you reexamine the cognitive distortions, then we have a chance of overcoming depression or anxiety. At times, medication, anti-depressants, is needed, particularly when you are likely to harm yourself and you have clear intentions to do so.
The National Institute of Mental Health reports 16% of the American population suffers from depression severe enough to warrant treatment i.e. not just occasionally feeling “blue,” and 13% suffer from anxiety disorders. Many people who suffer from depression also suffer from anxiety. The cognitive distortions are similar for both of them according to Dr. Burns. Of course, this is unreported cases. The actual numbers could be significantly higher.
If anyone has more information on this important topic, your thoughts would be appreciated.
Depression is a serious topic and thank you for having the courage to discuss it. A lot of places offer clinical information on it. But it’s nice to read that shares the opportunity to help themselves. The book by Dr. Burns sounds good.
Hope this is helpful and no imposition.
I have a new site that could be calming, comforting to you.
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dave
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What will you advise for treatment of depression? In fact it is very dangerous, when depression passes in the chronic form. WBR LeoP
Marina,
Chronic depression is a serious condition, especially with risk of suicide or harm to others. It requires proper medical attention.
Treatment by a trained psychiatrist is essential to allow the depression to be managed. Dr. David Burns in “The Feel Good Handbook” suggests drug therapy to stabilize the depression along with cognitive therapy to learn essential coping skills.
Talk to your Doctor, who can refer you to professional help in your area, about how you feel.
Let others know how you feel. Help is often a phone call away.
As a sufferer of anxiety attacks I have read the “Feel Good Handbook” of Dr. Burns a few months ago and I learned a lot from it on how to cope with my anxiety. Another very good program to fight anxiety and panic attacks and phobias I used is the Linden Method, about which I made a small review. I don’t consider myself completely cured yet, but the info in Dr.Burns’ book and in the Linden Method program helped me take back control over my life.
http://www.linden-method-review.bjm-web.com
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I believe that thinking and feeling are two different independent variables and we cannot relate them to each other. Just changing the question does not change the solution. This book seems simple but it is very confusing to me. I need lots of clarification to understand it. This book does not help me to feel good but I feel bad by following the steps. I feel better by just letting my imagination and thinking to go freely and changing it makes me feel uncomfortable. You understand the different between feeling good and bad when you have both of them. It is nice to have bad feelings which make you to understand what a good feeling is. To feel good all the time by changing your thinking does not make sense.
i think mike is right
I think Mike is absolutely right. People say that you can train your brain to react to different feelings like, Stress or depression, in a more positive way. But im a firm beleiver in the old saying: “Old habits die hard.” It’s a natural way of life to have feelings of sadness and depression. You have to pick up the pieces and move on. Medicine is there to help the more severe cases, and I understand that having a chemical imbalance is something that some people cant help… but becoming dependent on medication to take those feelings away is horrible to do if you can help it. I have high anxiety and the older I get, the worse it gets. Im 21 years old now and I try my best to keep going on a daily basis for my family. I take natural herbs like, Valarien Root to help my sleeping habits so that I can function better. And Kava always helps for anxiety if I have an attack. I function better now than I ever have…its all about mind over matter.
Can anybody tell me where I find a copy of the exercises from the feel good handbook by David Burns
xanax works too!
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