Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

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• David D. Burns:

  Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

• David D. Burns:

  Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, s

• David D. Burns:

  There is no standard 'therapeutic process,' since there are so many different schools of therapy.

• David D. Burns:

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• David D. Burns:

  What saddens me is seeing patients who have been going to therapy for years and years with no chang

• David D. Burns:

  Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxio

• David D. Burns:

  Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head

• David D. Burns:

  I'm all for 'tools,' not 'schools,' of therapy. To me, the schools of therapy compete much like rel

• David D. Burns:

  There is no 'ultimate goal of therapy.' Thinking there is some ultimate or universal goal of therap

• David D. Burns:

  Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-