CBT Therapy
The cluster focuses on discussions about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), its effectiveness for anxiety and depression, personal experiences, recommendations, resources like books and apps, and comparisons to alternatives like ACT or IFS.
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Is it cbt focused? What is your methodology here (there's different types of therapy).
CBT should be especially well suited https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19958920
What did you tried already? Did you try CBT?
Good luck! CBT doesn’t work for everybody, but since you read Hacker News I’d say there is a better chance it will align with you. Stoic philosophy and Mindfulness all touch on similar territory. I found a study of all three allowed me to pick and choose the best tidbits and internalize the processes.
Sounds like CBT, which seems to be the approach that gets the most success
Cognitive behavioral therapy works for me.
CBT has been shown to be effective in around 60% of patients, it's great that this method worked for you but this message is very rude to those who won't benefit from it.
if you follow these practices, you will maybe get betterIdk if my therapist used something from outside of CBT, but he definitely marketed himself as a CBT-ist. I was never given this "these practices" thing. I've solved my:- Environment control anxiety (long story)- Strong anxiety of being late. Eradicated via specific methods that I fully understand and were specific to me: recollecting the actual source event through pre-sleep questioning, realization of
This seems to agree with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy
I think its important to understand that CBT is a system, a set of tools for managing your thought patterns. Therapists who specialize in it are largely in the business of educating their clients, not having them lie on a couch and talk to the ceiling about their childhood. I'm not saying you won't have generic "talk-therapy" kind of conversations - those are still necessary for them to understand the specific issues you need to work on - but its not just someone helping you