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Firstly, if you’re looking into this book because of your battle with depression, anxiety, or something else distressing, I’m sorry. This may not be helpful to hear but in case it is, you’re not alone.

As someone who has done cognitive-behavioural therapy with a therapist before, I can attest that this workbook pretty much is the therapy. It’s a fantastic book full of digestible information, concrete examples, real life stories to see the therapy in action, and techniques that are broken down into small steps. This is definitely a workbook, in that you can’t just read the book and expect to feel better; you have to do the thought records and other activities.

This may or may not be the therapy for you, but it could be worth a try. It involves looking at how your thoughts influence your mood and behaviour and the main technique is examining your thoughts and challenging them with evidence. I don’t think doing the book again by myself during a relapse was as helpful as when I did it with a therapist, nor do I think this is a permanent, perfect solution. But until that exists, this provides some helpful tools.