113: Ask David — How Can I Overcome My Perfectionism?

Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy

David Burns, MD

Clinical, Therapy, Anxiety, Psychotherapy, Depression, Health & Fitness, Cognitive, Mentalhealth, Mental Health, Behavior, Education, Self-improvement, Psychology, Relationships, Addiction, Happiness, Personalgrowth

4.4 • 856 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

1. Steven asks about the best route to take if you want to learn and practice TEAM-CBT? Is the degree important? What's the best degree? Should you go to school to become a psychologist, clinical social worker, addiction counselor, psychiatrist, professional counselor, pastoral counselor, marriage and family therapist, life coach, or what? There are so many degrees and potential paths that my head is spinning!

2. Sandy asks how to overcome long-standing, entrenched perfectionistic tendencies.

3. Rin asks about the Burns Depression checklist and the criteria for depression in the DSM. He is (understandably) confused about the so-called "somatic" symptoms of depression, like insomnia or changes in appetite.

For example, some “experts” would argue that the following are all symptoms of clinical depression:

insomnia or the opposite—sleeping too much;
increased appetite or the opposite--decreased appetite;
loss of interest in sex, or the opposite, sex addiction;
loss of interest in work, or the opposite, being a workaholic.

How can opposite symptoms be symptoms of depression? Does this make sense? Are these really the symptoms of depression, or simply non-specific symptoms? What are the five key symptoms of real depression?

4. Kevin is a therapist with a simple question: How do I get over my desire to help?

5. Amanda asks how to use the Disarming Technique with a patient who thinks he or she isn’t making any progress in the therapy.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Feeling Good podcast.
0:12.4	I am your host, Fabrice Nye.
0:14.7	And joining me here in the Murrieta Studios is Dr. David Burns.
0:19.0	Hi, David.
0:20.0	Hi, Fabrice.
0:23.8	Dr. David Burns has been a pioneer in the development of cognitive therapy, and he is the creator of the new team therapy. He is the author of
0:30.2	Feeling Good, which has sold over 5 million copies in the United States, and has been translated into
0:35.5	over 20 languages. He is an emeritus adjunct clinical professor
0:40.0	of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Welcome to episode 113 of the
0:46.8	Feeling Good podcast. Today we have another Ask David. We're getting more and more questions.
0:52.9	We're going to have to have longer and
0:55.1	longer ask David's to field all those questions. We appreciate your questions. We do appreciate
1:00.7	the questions and they also help us come up with topics for new episodes. So please keep them
1:08.8	coming. So we got here something from Stephen, who said, thank you in Fabrice and special guests
1:15.3	for your wonderful podcasts.
1:17.5	I'm wondering what advice you have for people who are interested in going into therapy.
1:21.9	And he means by that becoming a therapist, I think, specifically team therapy.
1:29.9	I see the Feeling Good Institute has referrals to people with CITES, PhDs, and LCSW degrees, among others. Obviously, there are
1:38.6	many avenues into mental health. Any specific advice on entering the field of mental health for those with an interest in team
1:47.0	okay well I'll throw some ideas out there and you may have some ideas to throw out there as well Fabrice
1:54.0	the let me just say that of the people who come for team therapy to my free weekly Stanford training group for community therapists,
2:06.4	those who are PhDs in clinical psychology tend to learn the most quickly and have the best training,
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