Schema therapy really helping

[laverneandshirl]

Thought this might help someone else. I have been suffering depression and anxiety (including social anxiety) for many years - this book has really changed my thinking and I feel good at the moment. I am starting therapy with a qualified schema therapist at the moment and feeling positive about the future for the first time. This book is the self-help version (has a daft name but is actually quite serious).

www.amazon.co.uk/Reinventing-Your-Life-Breakthrough-Behaviour/dp/0452272041?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

Maybe it will help someone else.

[AmandaWatson]

Extraordinary to think it was first published more than twenty years ago, but I can't think of a more powerful self-help book. So pleased you're getting something from it.

[blubirdy]

Another vote for this book. Totally agree with both of you, utterly daft title, yet one of the best self-help books I have ever read (and I read too many self-help books, lol)

the lifetrap thingies, the ones we score highly on, are fairly easy to identify, and I personally found implementing small changes after identifying which ones I scored highest on was fairly easy. Even the liftetraps I can't/or won't easily change, just knowing I have them, I feel, makes .... well acceptance is sometimes half the battle.

if I was asked to recommend one self-help book, even for someone who has no issues or worries or problems, this would be it. IMO everyone can benefit from this book. And it's an easy read...no psychobabble, it's all written in layman's terms.