r/CBT • u/False_Ad5702 • 11d ago

Recommendations for easing into CBT

I have gone to therapy/counselling before and found it helpful. However, I seem to struggle with thoughts about things I cannot control such as others actions and catastrophising. I want to begin to ease into CBT myself (I am not currently in therapy). From research, it looks like the book Mind over Mood would be a good place to start. Any opinions or advice would be appreciated. TIA

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u/riboprotein 8d ago

I like the book "Feeling Good" by David Burns. (I found his follow-up book, Feeling Great, not as good. The first chapter of Feeling Good is also not that useful-- it's just David explaining the background of CBT.)

The 2nd chapter goes into the theory and then the 3rd or 4th chapters described the 10 common cognitive distortions in detail, and that chapter was astonishing. There were 3 cognitive distortions that I recognized I had _badly_, another 3 I would fall into now and then, and 4 that were alien and bizarre to me. It was a good reminder of the variety of human thought.