Hey @pandy:
That’s the book that both @LevelJ1 and I both swear by. Worth every penny. I’ve used mine so much it’s falling apart. I think you had asked about it earlier, but I saw ankles and then it slipped my mind.
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Yep it’s a great book. 
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I’m doing DBT for that. I qualified for DBT based on irrational fears.
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I sure hope it helps!
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Thanks @shutterbug. Me too
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Thanks, @shutterbug!! I will definitely check it out!
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I just found it on Amazon… again, thanks for making a whole thread for me! 
You may now bite my ankle as a gift to you.
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I also found one called Cognitive Therapy of Schizophrenia. (I downloaded a sample of both to my kindle, so I can check them out before I buy.)
The cbt for psychosis is really good for managing psychosis. It helped me a lot.
Great insights and techniques for various psychosis symptoms
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That’s good to hear. I get so overwhelmed when it gets loud and terrifying in here… I’m sure there’s CBT for depression, too? I’m going to ask my therapist about all of this on Tuesday.
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I found cbt for depression or anxiety to not work very well for me. It was pretty much the psychosis and negative symptoms strategies that helped in my case
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Got it.
With the depression and anxiety, you just kind of fight through as best as possible? Cause that’s all I’ve got right now.
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Yeah thats pretty much all I do.
For me the depression makes everything feel like it’s not worth doing. And even when I do something there’s minimal enjoyment.
So I just try to trudge through it.
Doesn’t always work and I’ll end up sleeping the day away or just sitting on the couch doing nothing
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It won’t get rid of the depression, but it will help you move through it better.
“IF I am feeling/recognizing THIS, I will go to my action chart and do THESE THINGS.” So you’ll still be brushing teeth and running through laundry while feeling rubbish.
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That’s kind of how I roll right now, to the best of my ability. Which is not great. And mostly I wind up on the couch, like @LevelJ1.
Since no one else is reading this thread, I’ll just be open about it –
I tried TMS, and it worked a tiny bit, then it caused me extreme anxiety, and when I stopped, the depression returned and kicked my ass HARD.
So at the end of January/beginning of February, I’m doing ECT. I can’t live with this depression anymore. It’s ruining my life. It’s like being tortured, between the depression and the noise in my head. (I’m considered treatment-resistant.)
I’m very hopeful about it, even though it’s a brutal treatment and will make me lose a few months of my life (and I have to go live with my parents while I do it). I know someone else on this site did it, and had a bad experience, but my friend’s sister did it, and she went from being unable to get out of bed to working a full time job.
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I hope the ect will help you. My pdoc said it has good results for treatment resistant depression
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I had the opposite experience. CBT was extremely helpful with anxiety, somewhat helpful with depression, but useless for psychosis.
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Yeah I guess it works for different minds
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I think cuz my anxiety Is mostly physical symptom and not mental it doesn’t help me to think my way out of it
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My anxiety was extremely physical (it wasn’t just mental, like worrying about stuff, although that was part of it too), the way I felt in my body was absolutely horrible, but it was caused by my thoughts. Once I learned to change my thoughts my physical symptoms decreased, then when I realized CBT was working my anxiety dropped off almost completely.
Shortly after my first anxiety attack, sometimes just thinking about how bad the anxiety made me feel would then make me anxious and I would feel awful again, it was a viscous cycle.
I had 1mg lorazepam (ativan) PRN for the really bad times, but I never abused it or became dependent on it.
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