If you are a self-help junkie, you have probably come across today's guest.

Dr David Burns is not just a psychiatrist. He's a disruptor and he's a creative voice in the field of mental health.

Not only did he help bring cognitive behavioral therapy to the masses, but he's helped millions of people worldwide with depression and anxiety through his books feeling good and feeling great.

And I, Beck had some techniques, but they were kind of dry and little on the boring side and so I started developing more powerful techniques more like what I'd seen in psychodrama and over the years kind of, you know, first I wrote Feeling Good, which was classical cognitive therapy, and then it's now morphed into something we call team CBT which is like cognitive therapy on steroids.

Now Dr Burns has taken it a step further with his Feeling Great app which is driven by AI.

Imagine having a doctor burns in your pocket

to help you with depression, anxiety,

or whatever symptoms you're experiencing.

The best part of it is it's backed up by science and data.

We're very excited because it causes the same dramatic,

ridiculously fast changes in depression, anxiety,

anger, loneliness, hopelessness, really within 72 minutes now.

Dr. Burns is on a mission to lower the barriers associated with getting help for mental health conditions.

He wants to provide low cost, effective, and quick help to people who need it.

So it's a very dynamic process and the goal there is to get rapid and profound reductions in

those seven negative feelings and one thing we've discovered through the

statistical modeling is that there's a dark matter in the human psyche or in the human brain that there's one common cause for all seven of these negative emotions.

And beyond the data and the techniques, Dr. Burns also has a very special quality,

which is that he cares about the people that he's working with.

I treat everyone for free.

That's one thing I kept from my hippie days

when we were homeless.

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