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What happens in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

CBT is generally looking at behavior patterns and being able to put a stop to negative thoughts. I have had CAT which is pretty similar and it involved a lot of visual ways to look at the way I have been progressing. It’s a very ‘warts and all’ therapy, which means you are going have to look at yourself long and hard. You have to be self assessed and be able to allow yourself to have high self control. When I took CAT I was asked to write no-send letters, draw diagrams and charts and graphs as to my progress and every week I would be given a sheet to mark down out of 5 what I would be at for meeting my objectives. It can be a very hands on technique.

It is helpful for many mental illnesses or disorders, for example it can be helpful for eating disorders and I think OCD.

If you’re really keen to look into what CBT is there are books available and essays and websites published online to give information.

Hope this helps a little bit.

My doctor is referring me to cognitive behavioral therapy for general depressed/negative moods and such, due to a long term illness.

To be honest, I’ve never heard of it until now. I was doing a bit of Googling but I was just wondering if anyone had any personal experience with it (if so, did it help?) or was familiar with it in any way?

Thanks for any answers.

Yes, it has been the most helpful thing to me in my battle with clinical depression. Frankly, I believe it is the only thing along with meds to take the edge off that has helped me thru the years. It gives you a new way to see life and others and how to deal with them. It helps you see how you have gotten yourself into the negative moods nd depressed situation. I learned that I have a choice in how I can view a situation and feel about it. It’s really quite practical and amazing at the same time.

designed to ease the pain of the weekends utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, and abjectly wretched defeat by Everton?

Does it work?

Are you feeling any better?

Good point Mr B.
CBT would normally involve a therapist or counsellor, teasing out the ‘patient’s’ thoughts – on the rather dubious theory that thoughts govern our behaviour and both can be changed. Saturday’s dire result clearly led to the voluntary expression of many confused and anguished thoughts and I doubt such public soul baring did anything to ease the pain, the shock, the devastating blow to Mancs’ self-esteem and identification with success and self-glorification.
I’m not sure any type of therapy would help United fans – apart, perhaps, from opiates and allowing time to heal. It’s impossible to analyse the root cause(s) of United’s disshevelled, lack-lustre performance.
One sad case, obviously in a state of denial about Rednose’s competence as regards team selection, posted an especially banal Q – reminding us all of SAF’s "fantastic" record and seeking confirmation that he was "irreplaceable".
Poor chap – I fear for his mental state if United’s decline continues at the present rate and they end up without any trophies this year, as seems increasingly likely to many – apart from the die-hard fans unable to face reality.

Should we have a "Be nice to United fans week" ?

OK – what about a day – or an afternoon ?

Or would a minute’s silence be asking too much ?

The ABC or “Cognitive” Model of Emotions and Behavior presented by Dr. Aldo Pucci, president of the National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists and founder of the Rational Living Therapy Institute. Think you can’t help how you feel and act? Think again. Learn how our emotions actually work from an expert in cognitive-behavioral therapy.

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I didnt want to take medication because I dont want to be dependent on a medication,.. but now Im 4 months pregnant and my anxiety has gotten so bad on most days I dont even leave my house and avoid talking on the phone to anyone. I know I can’t take any meds while Im pregnant but I was wondering if anyone has been in my situation, and can give me some tips to help ease the anxiety.

I used medication and therapy (individual and group). After two years, I don’t need either anymore. A good therapist will do you wonders!

I am having trouble finding this information, anyone know??

Albert Ellis

what are the diffrences between these 2 approaches? Thanks!

Oh help. The behavioral therapy is only to change the conduct.

I am 30 years old and have had social phobia since around high school. I sometimes leave my house but it takes lots of effort. I am enrolled in a group therapy class where I practice speeches but I heard that CBT is helpful. Whats the best way to start this therapy. Thank you.

Both anything can help.

Been searching for ages, can’t find anything.
Can anyone help?

Advantages

It’s short term so more cost effective for both client and therapist

It deals with the here and now and focuses on strategies in order to become your own therapist

When a core belief/schema is identified it usually covers a broad range of cognitive errors in your thinking, and therefore helps manage a variety of your problems (although not always)

It helps the client identify the underlying reason to why certain behaviours occur or why the feelings are there…

Logic based approach and pro-active, in collaboration with the therapist

Disadvantages

Still fairly new as a model compared to Psychodynamic counselling and much of the research hasn’t been compared to control models but only on the target outcome.

With regards to medication-

Personally I don’t believe that CBT is more prone to maintaining someone on medication. CBT works well with people who are on medication because it does not tend to interfere. CBT has an assessment process where the therapist will find out which medication the client is on, know the side affects etc which means that it’s easier for them to conceptualize and make a forward thinking strategy alongside the medication.

Remember that although you may think the way you feel and behave the way you feel this doesn’t mean that you can’t stop behaving and carry on thinking… behaviour and thought I believe are interlinked but take for example someone trying to stop smoking- they can stop smoking yet still want and think about that cigarette… without having patches or tablets to stop smoking- the basis is how to cope, manage, tolerate the feelings of withdrawal? What are the steps that you can take to feel " ok " about it… that’s the goal.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (or cognitive behavior therapy, CBT) is a psychotherapeutic approach that aims to influence dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure. CBT can be seen as an umbrella term for therapies that share a theoretical basis in behavioristic learning theory and cognitive psychology, and that use methods of change derived from these theories.[1].

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