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Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

~David D. Burns

Topics: Depression Healthy Illness Living Necessary Part

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Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you eliminate the symptoms and experience personal growth so you can minimize future upsets and cope with depression more effectively in the future.

~David D. Burns

Topics: Apply Cognitive Cope Depression Effectively Eliminate Experience Future Growth Help Learn Minimize Modification Mood More Own Personal Personal Growth Symptoms Technology Therapy Upsets You Your

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Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

~David D. Burns

Topics: Because Convinced Deficit Desperately Develop Endorse Health How Including Know Lack Love Loving Make Mental Mental Health Most Need Professionals Relationships Researchers Satisfying Simply Skills Them Theory Wage Want War

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One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con. In other words, you're telling yourself things that aren't entirely true when you're fighting with someone.

~David D. Burns

Topics: About Anger Cognitive Con Conflict Entirely Fighting Idea In Other Words Interesting Interesting Things Interpersonal Mental Most Other Result Someone Telling Theory Things True Ultimately Words You Yourself

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That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

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Topics: About Bad Create Fool Misery Moods Often Ourselves Peculiar Simply Telling Things True

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Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

~David D. Burns

Topics: Anxiety Cause Kindness

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Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

~David D. Burns

Topics: Because Cancer Depression Feel Hope Loved Most Patients Seem Self-Esteem Terminal Than Worse

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There is no standard 'therapeutic process,' since there are so many different schools of therapy.

~David D. Burns

Topics: Different Many Process Schools Since Standard Therapeutic Therapy

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I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood.

~David D. Burns

Topics: Along Bees Blood Dogs Fear Fears Had Heights Horses Including Many Other Phobias Young

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What saddens me is seeing patients who have been going to therapy for years and years with no change, but they keep going to the same therapist. To me, that's not right.

~David D. Burns

Topics: Been Change Going Keep Keep Going Me Patients Right Same Seeing Therapist Therapy Who Years Years And Years

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