Cognitive therapy
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Topic: Cognitive therapy
Posted By: Nefertiti
Subject: Cognitive therapy
Date Posted: 31 December 2008 at 8:07am
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Has anyone experience this? If you don't mind, would you please share your experienecs? It has been suggested I give it a go, but I don't know to much about it. Thanks.
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 31 December 2008 at 8:15am
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Yeah I'm doing my therapists version of it at the moment (so very similar).
So far I'm finding it pretty good, it gives me the tools to help change my mindset and cope with situations I wouldn't normally be able to cope with which is the whole idea of it...to change how you view things and therefore how you deal with things. It can be better than meds so I've been told but I couldn't comment on that as it is still early days for me. I'm not sure what else to tell you so any questions just ask.  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: FreeSpirit
Date Posted: 06 January 2009 at 5:22pm
| Cognitive behavioural Therapy was a really valuable tool for me, it gave me the skills to recognise when my thoughts were nt as positive or rational as they could be. And helps give me the appropriate mental back-chat to correct these thoughts. Sometimes it really does help to step back in your own head and say "hey, thats not a good way to think, thats not a true statement" which is basically the tool it gives you. you then follow it up with affirmation. eg - negative statement "this is just to hard, i can't do it" "no, that's not true" "this is hard, but I am able to do it i just have to try" |
Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 06 January 2009 at 5:25pm
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Yup, I did it for 5 months to help me deal with depression/stress/relationships. At the time, I was always thinking "this will never work", but it really did. I saw my psychologist every fortnight, probably 8 times in total, and it was totally worth the money. I still find myself reverting to my previous thinking in some situations, but can usually overcome it. The trigger was that we planned a holiday and every holiday I'd had for the last 4 years, I'd always got sick from stress. This one, 4 weeks in Asia, I was in really good health. I had one "bad day" where I withdrew from DH (which was always my coping mechanism for stress) but that was way better than it had been. ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: SBM
Date Posted: 06 January 2009 at 6:23pm
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I've tried it a couple times before and totally hated it, but that's possibly because I didn't have the backup of continuing to see the counsellor after she gave me the tools and advice etc. It worked very short-term but long-term I just slip back to my old ways.
At the moment I'm seeing a psycho-therapist. He doesn't use CBT, I can't remember what technique he uses, but I'm finding it a lot more helpful than any of the counsellors I've ever seen before! |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 January 2009 at 7:34pm
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for me CBT(for OCD) really really worked and if it wasn't $130 a session(have to have a specialist:( ) I would be still going.. ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |