Bringing the science of CBT therapy into your everyday life
Most people have within them sufficient self healing ability to overcome the psychological problems that often trouble us in modern life. They just don’t know how to do it. I have developed the Active Self Help System that lays out in detail how to overcome depression, anxiety and stress. It is a proven system; it really works and as you progress through it you gain increasing mastery over your own psychological well being.
The Active Self Help System uses the knowledge, tools and resources of CBT therapy but translates this scientific and clinical goldmine into material you can access via your computer and use at home to overcome depression, anxiety and stress.
DrPurves.com is a free resource that can begin your journey to wellness, healthy living and happiness.
Depression
Depression is a recurring and pernicious problem that devastates lives. Depression covers a wide spectrum of mental health problems often characterised by a loss of good feelings, low mood, and a range of cognitive, emotional, behavioural and physical symptoms. Each individual’s experience of depression is unique and each journey to wellness is also unique. Hence the sufferer is the best expert on their problems making self help an obvious choice for successful depression treatment.
Depression Treatment
There is a wide range of available treatments for depression, although only a few have accumulated evidence of true effectiveness. Antidepressants have become more controversial as a routine care for mild to moderate depression even so their dominance as the first line of treatment has not diminished. As medical solutions to depressive illnesses lose some credibility the cognitive therapies have risen to prominence. These include cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT therapy) cognitive therapy and behavioural therapy.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or CBT Therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT Therapy) can be a fundamental part of the answer to the problem of depression described here. CBT therapy incorporates a powerful set of tools and techniques that sit within a coherent and workable theory of human psychology. Many thousands of researchers have spent many millions of hours understanding the workings of the human brain and how it delivers the experiences we have. Cognitive science provides one of the best understandings of how the brain works, how psychological problems develop and how they can be resolved and even eliminated. The Active Self Help System uses this knowledge to change lives.
How to get the benefits of CBT therapy into your life
CBT therapy can be hard to access, it can be expensive if delivered by a therapist and there are not many well trained CBT therapists compared to the huge clinical need. And it is often necessary to wait for treatment at the time of greatest need. For these reasons Dr Purves has developed the Active Self Help System. The System takes all of the important tools and techniques within a comprehensive CBT therapy and transforms them into materials you can use at home delivered through your own computer. DrPurves.com can be the start of this process. Sign up for the Wellness Starter kit and you will receive free material to help you embark on the path of using The Active Self Help System for delivering CBT therapy at home.
Anxiety Problems
Anxiety problems are very common. Anxiety disorders capture a considerable range of different presentations but the underlying issues remain feelings of fear, worry and threat. Have you sought self help for anxiety problems or maybe undertaken an anxiety therapy? Do you feel safe in your life…in your skin? Fear spoils many of life‘s joys. It can be like a closing trap getting ever tighter, strangling. But it does not have to be this way. There is already a well developed and deeply understood anxiety therapy that uses the mountains of good solid research and millions of hours of clinical expertise as its foundation. CBT therapy offers a powerful set of strategies to help you feel safer. Begin today to take control over those unpleasant and difficult emotions. Let me provide free tools you can use right away to get started. My wellness starter kit and newsletters are just the beginning!
Stress
Do you feel you have too much to do and not enough time to do it? Do you feel overwhelmed by life yet unable to do enough to keep the fear of failing at bay? Have you thought about an anxiety therapy of maybe even a depression treatment? Intolerable stress is corrosive and UNECESSARY. True it is not possible to live a life without any stress. That is not the point! It is however possible to manage, overcome and defeat the intolerable stress that destroys your wellbeing.
The secret of living a happy productive life
The secret of living depression free or without anxiety problems is NOT A SECRET at all. There is a significant body of clinical research that supports effective long lasting and life enhancing depression treatment and anxiety therapy.
Overcoming depression, anxiety and stress
Active Self Help
Each individual is a self healing engine and all this engine needs to function perfectly is for three things to happen. These are the three basic tenets of The Active Self Help System:-
You need to understand what the problem is
You need to understand what to do about the problem
You need to know how to work on the problem
When these three tenets are satisfied you will be on the journey out of low mood and anxiety problems.
Dr Purves.com 
DrPurves.com is a free resource that offers the beginning steps of the Active Self Help System of depression treatment and anxiety therapy or for the elimination of toxic stress. The truth is people can help themselves out of clinical depression or clinical anxiety without any additional therapeutic help from a professional. This is what Active Self Help is all about.
DrPurves.com is dedicated to starting you off on the journey to wellness. Please become a member and start to change your life for the better.
Blues Begone 
Over 11 years ago Dr David Purves, in partnership with his brother Dr Byron Purves, created the first truly interactive home-based depression treatment program. They called it Blues Begone because that is what it did – it banished the blues. David and Byron conducted years of clinical research, analyzing data from many hundreds of patients all diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety who through Blues Begone achieved lives free from depression and anxiety. This proved that Blues Begone and the Active Self Help System delivered all the tools needed for a complete depression treatment or anxiety therapy. Blues Begone was ground breaking because previously no one thought self help could achieve this remarkable result. The Active Self Help System proved its worth. Blues Begone continues to change lives across the globe.
Mood Control 
Dr David Purves launched Mood Control in 2011 as a video rich Active Self Help CBT therapy program. Dr Purves also runs a successful CBT therapy practice in the United Kingdom and he took the decision to capture every aspect of a clinically effective CBT therapy and turn it into a web delivered CBT program.
The beauty of this program is that it is available on all computer and mobile devices, truly a 21st century incarnation of the successful Active Self Help System.
References
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance on depression in adults
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance on anxiety in adults
Purves,D.G., Bennett, M. & Wellman, N. (2009). An open trial in the NHS of Blues Begone: A new home based computerized CBT program. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. 37, 541-551.
