987baz said:
Thank you everyone for all the other input. And you're very welcome for the book. As Aragorn mentioned about books "doing the trick" I agree that sometimes it takes much more than just one book, and sometimes even going back to books already read helps. Or personally speaking this has been my case, books read a while back (even if it's novels or anything not too deep so to speak) tend to have another meaning when I read them again. So it's just like little tools we are adding and adding :) The good thing about these type of books, i think, it's not just theory, so with the exercises, IMO, it's the best way to put all the theory into practice.
Also I do agree that the test can help to see how much of a benefit CBT has been, but I recall it was also mentioned that maybe someone else that knows you can do the test in ur name, cause sometimes we can be a bit bias he. The first time I did it by myself, so maybe i'll try asking someone in my family to take the test for me. But reading my post back then in December about the test. I can certainly see how some things are still there, which is now a reminder to still work on them, but anxiety or depression wise things have been way better.
I was also thinking about Dispenza's book. Cause all this narratives we tend to have are so wired in our brains that we just automatically think in those ways. So the exercises in CBT, IMO, really make you think which ones are yours and which aren't, and also the why's about them.
