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10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

There is no doubt CBT works. What I try to get across to people is that not only have I found on my own but Therapists state that repetition will stick it in their mind where it will take over and become automatic. I know why, but the why is not necessary to know to do it. The mind continuously improves and changes. CBT is not something you want to lose with change. You want to practice it so often you automatically keep it with the more important things. Like I said why and how it works is not important to anyone but those that want to know. The why and how does make the doing easier but is far too complicated for the person coming here with panic attacks and not necessary to get rid of them.

Anxiety is not cancer, you can't just cut it out once and it is gone. It needs continuous care. What we aim for is doing this care without conscious thought thereby although it is still therapy, it acts more like a cure. We still do it, we just don't notice that we do. As close as you can get to not having to.

Davit

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2606

Hi Davit,

Thank you for sharing your views on CBT. Even though you said this post was not necessarily in the goal of starting a discussion. CBT is definitely something worth discussing, especially since the program offered here is CBT based.

It is interesting to see how CBT has been helpful to others and to gain strategies on how to make it the most effective for you.

Thanks again,

Samantha, Health Educator

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 101

I take CBT as it will help me in curing my GAD & meaningless negative thoughts.Yet I find difficult to have good counsellor.

So I take note of my negative thoughts,challange them & discuss them with my near & dear.

Although it is not very professional approach yet I build positive thoughts on self CBT.It sometimes work & sometimes even not also.

rohit131

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

I'm very privileged to live in a functional rather than normal world because what is normal is not always desirable. But it is how it is. CBT makes it possible and we know that should not be necessary but is. Some times I feel like I am surrounded by lemmings.

Davit

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2508

Davit I know you said this was not a discussion thread and I am sorry I hope you don't mind if I express my feeling here too if that is ok with you..I don't want to hijack your thread or anything. I was accused of hijacking a thread in the quit smoking site a couple of months ago. At least one of the members said so. I just found out a couple of days ago what the term hijacking a thread means. I still don't see how you can hijack a thread in a support group, this is if it is really a support group..Doesn't really matter now because I don't offer much support their anymore anyway now.

Anyway on to what I was going to say..about CBT and my functioning in a normal world..

Function yes!

In a Normal world?

What is Acceptable now and considered Normal was not normal at all when I was growing up. I am not sure if I can Accept the New Normal. I really don't want to. It goes against every thing I believe in and I guess the way I was raised and brought up would not be considered Normal anymore..So this is one of those Core beliefs I am holding one to, my belieft and values are to important to me.

I refuse to become one of them, a Apple that is. I know survival of the fittes,and strongest and all.. Oh Well I have always been a Orange all my life and like who I am. If I don't survive as long as them At least I will have gone down fighting for what I believe in and can hold my head up high because of my ideals and who I am..

So for now I will do my best to function when in their normal world. I will go out and get my supplies when needed and go to the doctor if needed but I Hope to God I never become Normal like one of them..

Yes CBT will help me function in their world when I have to be in it..

Red..

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Yes but what is it? Well I guess it can be anything since the name isn't very specific. There are a lot of books out there professing to do this and I guess they do if you take the last word literally. And that is where I go wrong. I'm not interested in therapy, I'm interested in a cure. I've gone past coping and relaxing. Therapy in it's literal sense. And it worked, it just never cured me. It made it possible to tolerate panic but it never got rid of it and it won't. I became very good at coping and panic did lessen but it never went away. Till now. You can not fix something if you have no idea why it is broke. The chances were pretty good I would continue to make the same mistakes. Isn't that what core beliefs are. It is easy enough to say change negative thoughts to positive and that is a form of coping but it is still just coping. If I do it often enough it does lessen the panic but that isn't good enough for me. I want a cure and I can only get that from knowing why. There isn't much information on why and it isn't on the internet. You can say yes there is but there isn't. There is instruction on how to change negatives to positives but no instruction on why or how doing this works. So again this is just coping not fixing. But do it anyway because CBT does work as therapy. And done consistently it does make it possible to function in the world. So do it. It just isn't good enough for me. So I will continue to pursue how the mind works and why, but I will keep it to myself because it is probably confusing to anyone who has not seriously studied it. It also is not necessary to full fill therapy. It is also probably too complicated to the average person who only wants to cope even though they think that is a cure. And for the vast majority it is.

Do the program, it is based on CBT and will make it possible to function in the normal world.

This isn't a discussion really or a thread even, just an explanation of what I think.

Davit.

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