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hi ron you wrote > i am curious as to whether you used the worksheets >that David Burns included in his Feeling Good Handbook? yes, i did >do you use some version of them currently? no, i don't >my opinion is that using this tool was the >process that made the difference. i agree i believe that the actual 'doing' and the thinking involved tied in with the writing down of those thoughts creates a dynamic that somehow starts to retrain the brain's neurons into using new pathways since 1991, when i first re-discovered david burns' books, i have gone back to them in varying degrees several times if i feel myself 'slipping' back i generally use the Beck Depression Inventory test [it's on one of my web-site pages, preen!] as a 'check-up' per dr. burns' suggestion immediately after re-discovering the book when i was deep in cd my bdi score was 27 [considered a moderate-tending-to-severe depression] [my bdi score probably had been higher than that in the period prior to my having found the 'gumption' to even look at the book] some days/weeks later it was 21 [borderline depression] and the last time i checked [last month] it was 8 [considered 'normal'] i can attribute the improvement in my situation both to burns' techniques in re cognitive distortion and to finding an optimum level of anti-depressant medication being able to recognise the existence of essential distortions in thought processes in myself was a major first step for me "the scales fell from my eyes" your cyber-sis in slippage stoppage janet janet paterson 51/10 - endocarb/selegiline/fluoxetine - [log in to unmask] a new voice: http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm