Anyone read feeling great and found it a bit underwhelming?
So I've read feeling great by david burns twice now, on my second run through I was diligent about doing all the examples and made sure I didn't leave anything on the table, I started the book skeptical but repeatedly david talks about the amazing, sudden and sometimes euphoric change that can be made once you break these negative Distortions, this lead to me feeling really hopeful and excited, as I went though the book I kept finding the techniques weren't working too well, and it got to a point where I began to feel really let down, I almost feel like it was a con? I know he does mention it won't be helpful for everyone who reads it but I think he doubled down way too much on describing how amazing the book really is because I'd never felt so Hopeless as when I finished the book, put the work in, and realised I didn't feel any better. To add to that in the final chapter when I saw that there were no real improvements he said just try something else, even though the book only gets you to try a handful of techniques on a handful of thoughts, surely you'd need to try a bit more? It's almost dismissive of anyone who read the book with underwhelming results. I'm sure there was still some merit having read the book and I do want to say that I can see how this book has been extremely effective for a number of people but it still dosent change the way I feel about it, and I just wondered if anyone else might have had a similar experience with it.