What is Reddit's opinion of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple: 10 Strategies for Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, and Worry?

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Medicine would be a great route. SSRIs works for me and keep the mean thoughts silent, so it's a huge relief. It was the first time I ever took a prescription for depression and it made functioning sooo much easier. It also caused me to feel less mad because I wasn't sad or frustrated all the time.

I would deff work on getting medicine and therapy first. :)

If you can understand to like yourself and be kind to yourself it would be a HUGE first step to relaxing. It's difficult, I hate myself sometimes for no reason. But I would save telling people youre autistic for later on down the road. I would personally advise against it since there are more important problems to handle besides shitty people.

I have some books I could mail you. I bought them to work through my depression but never used them. I believe this is the book. If you want it, I can mail it to you :)

CBT was immensely helpful combatting my overthinking, negative cycles, and rumination.

I read this book Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple: 10 Strategies For Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, And Worry https://www.amazon.com/dp/1939754852/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_uHaau1jBvynC5 and it was a very easy read. I’m not perfect at catching myself and breaking the cycle but I definitely can do it more often now. It was worth the read

I hope it helps to know that this is so common that there is an entire field of techniques to help with it. It's not just you or me, a LOT of people feel this way and end up feeling sad, anxious, or angry because of how they interoperate things from other people or the world in general. It is really really good to be able to say to yourself "well, this thing happened, but that does not mean I need to get sad or angry as a result."

This is my favorite

https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Therapy-Made-Simple/dp/1939754852

That's because it's a practice shows changes as a daily habit, over time. Couple it with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (I got this one from Amazon) and you have a recipe for slowly changing your pattern of thoughts. If you don't like seating and breathing try journaling. You can write down how you feel about yourself each day and then challenge those thoughts with evidence.

No matter how you go about it your task is to (like I said in my previous comment, read about how neuroplasticity works) replace the overused go-to negative pattern of thoughts with a new set. It takes time so you have to make it a habit but you will feel changes if you stick to it.

Like others suggested, go for therapy. In the meantime, see if you can find time to read/watch about CBT. The book that helped me was:

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/1939754852

Here is an excellent video I am watching/thinking about recently:

https://youtu.be/TVgQ_tgWMyU

Don't go by the title. He covers a lot of things. I think you might be able to relate with the bit around Rumination.

Hang in there, you're already doing great getting to this position in a very slow system. Start learning CBT yourself! Try this book from Amazon and see if it helps: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1939754852/

Cardio (treats depression, anxiety and insomnia). Self help cognitive behavioral therapy (prevents depression, anxiety and insomnia).

Like this for example

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1939754852/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glc_i_PM98DRVT7XCGTH9A4DFB

Yea - I made a throw away just to reply to this.

I definitely have tried so much to overcome procrastinating...I can remember when I was in 2nd grade (I'm in my 30s now) and waiting until the last moment to get stuff done. In my late 20's I started losing jobs over it.

I've tried medicationI've tried Therapy (three times)I've tried books

What I've come to learn is;

• Procrastination is, at its core, pain avoidance. You do something else to lessen the pain of doing the thing you need to do. But the funny thing is; doing something else only hurts us more. CBT is helpful in this regard to logically see that doing something now is less painful in the long run; but that understanding that I'm avoiding discomfort was helpful
• It has roots in anxiety. Watch yourself work and write down how you are feeling; do you notice anything? For me, my heart spiked, I got physical pains in my shoulders, I felt like I was going to have a heart attack the longer I went. I didn't realize that isn't normal.
• It has roots in addiction; somewhere along the line when we started procrastinating we got a reward hit by avoiding it; and now we've wired our brains to do something else - we are as bad (at least me) as a coke addict as a alcoholic - this is something you have to work at everyday.

I think its a good idea to go to therapy; maybe try CBT...I don't know your situation but for me medication actually made it worse...Check out this book https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Therapy-Made-Simple/dp/1939754852/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=CBT+workbook&qid=1613156375&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExVzJaWDlKTU5JVzNRJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMzEyMDczMVpRRUZQVVcyTlVWNCZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMDc0ODgxMkVTMjI3TFdIUU5KVyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

By following it; its almost identicle to what you would do with a CBT therapist.

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Alot of people suffer with this; and I think it prescient you are seeking help. One site I also use is focusmate.com...My DM's are always open if you want to talk anything through

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Oh and I don't really think I answered the question of "if any of those worked"

- Medication; masked it for a time but made it worse without it

- Therapy - worked when I did it; didn't when I didnt do it

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Basically I have episodes that get progressively worse at this point and Im just trying to manage it. But I feel like, as with any addiction, success is the result of multiple failures.

A quick run through the internet turned up this youtube channel. Looks like lady is an LCSW and she has playlists of a lot of different therapy technique. I scrubbed through them but she seems to be doing a good job of explaining it to laypeople and she has a playlist specifically for CBT but also playlists for other therapy techniques.

This workbook looks to be pretty simple, and searching "cognitive behavioral therapy" on amazon brought up a TON of workbooks, for everything from depression to addiction to trauma, etc. I especially like that you ordinarily can look inside the workbook before buying it.