Looking for books that help with depression and anxiety? These highly rated mental health books cover CBT tools, self-compassion, overthinking and healing, written by psychologists, doctors and people who have been there. Books can support you but do...
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Practical Tools (CBT & Skills)
Understanding Your Mind
Self-Compassion & Healing
Practical Tools (CBT & Skills)
Practical Tools (CBT & Skills): standout picks here include The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life and Mind Over Mood. Each item has a quick note on what it does and who it's best for.
A classic CBT-based book with practical exercises for challenging negative thinking.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
A CBT workbook many therapists use. Worksheets help you practice skills step by step.
Mind Over Mood
A thorough, practical workbook covering many types of anxiety.
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
A popular, approachable method for responding to anxious thoughts and panic.
DARE: The New Way to End Anxiety
A psychiatrist explains how anxiety becomes a habit loop and how to break it.
Unwinding Anxiety
A popular ACT workbook for handling difficult thoughts and feelings.
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
Understanding Your Mind
Understanding Your Mind: standout picks here include Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? and Lost Connections. Each item has a quick note on what it does and who it's best for.
Explores social and life causes of depression and anxiety beyond brain chemistry.
Lost Connections
A therapist's warm, funny memoir that makes therapy feel less intimidating.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Short, practical chapters from a clinical psychologist. Easy to dip in and out of.
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
An ACT-based guide to handling painful thoughts and living by your values.
The Happiness Trap
Self-Compassion & Healing
Self-Compassion & Healing: standout picks here include Reasons to Stay Alive, The Comfort Book and Radical Acceptance. Each item has a quick note on what it does and who it's best for.
An honest, hopeful memoir about living through depression.
Reasons to Stay Alive
Short, gentle reflections that are easy to read on hard days.
The Comfort Book
A mindfulness teacher on letting go of self-judgment.
Radical Acceptance
Explains how to complete the stress cycle. Especially popular with women.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Research-based tools for treating yourself with kindness.
