Saturday 10 November 2012

Depression for dummies quiz time!!!

Straight from Wikipedia:
David D. Burns is an adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of the best-selling book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. Burns popularized cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) when his book became a best seller during the 1980s.

Ok, so , for today we' ll do something really fun. 
We'll use his Depression Checklist to pick a label: Moody, depressed, suicidal etc! Fun times.
Just go to the site below and knock yourself out.


http://www.suicideforum.com/bdc/index.html

And I' d like to end this post with a famous quote of D.D.Burns concerning depression and cancer:
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.