Posted by Dinah on January 26, 2004, at 20:20:52
In reply to Cognative Behavioral Therapy, posted by Pandabear on January 26, 2004, at 19:58:43
My brain isn't functioning well tonight, so maybe Matt or someone could phrase this better. But a big part of the cognitive part of CBT is catching yourself in dysfunctional thinking and replace it with more... functional? thinking. So if you tend to horribilize things or consistently only see the bad side to things, your therapist might be wanting you to train your brain to think of things differently.
I generally got annoyed at this part, because it didn't feel any different from lying to myself. And I felt better about my revised thoughts if they were more believable, which meant less positive than my therapist would like. But that's me...
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