What types of CBT have you found to b... - Mental Health Sup...
What types of CBT have you found to be beneficial (if any)?
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Telephone cbt. Useless
Positive thinking, Journaling, Particular Exercises
Phone Cbt
The idea of CBT is very good but the twice I have had it the therapists were not that good so didn't really help me. I have a book which I find more helpful and when I am depressed I read it. Won't need book now I have found Depression forum.
Mindfullness. Half way through course at the moment
Person Centred Therapy - keeps me going.
I find EFT much more effective with mindfulness & journaling
I had Mentalisation Behaviour Therapy and rest but 1-1 works best for me and reading helps intellectually but not emotionally. MBT I was just used as scapegoat for others to avoid talking about themselves. Nearly drove me to successful suicide. Psychology group was good, closed with only 8 max but less. Mindfulness helps to read. When I go down nothing works but drinking booze and over-medicating and my dogs in bed. still v black. :O(
My guess is that you would find longer term individual analytic therapy more helpful but sadly it is seldom available within the NHS.
I'm finding Mindfulness the most beneficial for me. It has helped me understand what triggers my depression and spot the early warning signs. Learning how to work with, rather than against, negative thoughts and feelings is making life so much easier.
Hi mikerr, I'm halfway through an online mindfulness course. Jury is still out on whether or not I'm getting something from it. My problem tends to be that I learn the skills and somehow forget to use them and then berate myself for not using them. I know that we are all different, but how long before 'you got it', so to speak. Thanks
Someone should send these figures to the NICE people who decide what therapies should be offered within the NHS!
One on one with a friend
I had group therapy though there were only 3 of us. The last session there were just 2 of us and I spent 1 hour 40 minutes (out of 2 hours) while they concentrated only on the other person and ignored me completely. They wouldn't have given me any time if I hadn't butted in, then they reluctantly turned to me. Crap!
Sounds like they wrongly assessed you for group therapy as the idea is that the individuals within the group each takes responsibility for how much they are involved in interactions within the group. Group therapy is unlikely to be effective with only 2 or 3 people as that number doesn't meet the criteria for the model of therapy so the group shouldn't have started. What you got was one therapist and two clients and in that situation the therapist should have ensured you each were drawn into discussion in order that you could help one another. In a group where the members are well matched in terms of their difficulties and needs one of the other members would hopefully have identified with you and drawn you in or else the therapist would have helped you with that by at least making clear what might happen before the group began.
the better practitioners can help. the people "who dabble and can do a bit" are dangerous because they fail and put people off the valuable resource.
the other is mindful living. 3minuits breathing exercise seem to calm thoughts down.
When it was suggested to me they were quite insistent i try the group which was terrifying to me and not reassuring at all. eventually they said i could try a one to one session but i would need to wait three weeks. the sessions were rare and the woman although nice wasn't particularly helpful. Filling in those 'on a scale of one to five how likely are you to kill yourself' forms was insulting to me as if they were just ticking boxes and not helping with the problem at all. I was in the really bad place and cbt or at least my experience was useless
I wont go on because I explained at length once on here, but for someone whom suffers from a kind of PTSD, CBT was like hell on earth and made me worse. NEVER EVER again. All I'll say is its not one coat fits all and I feel very much it is a cheap quick fix the GP's love to prescribe. Now all I can get is CBT , so I have nothing and cope alone, not at all the best answer, but what can you do.
Sadly there is no option but to seek private help.x
I found CBT totally useless. Worksheets and flow diagrams on my 'behaviour and feelings' that I could have printed out myself from the Internet.
Writting!
Singing in a joyful choir is one of the best cures for depression I know!
Yes, but it requires a degree of motivation and confidence that many depressed people do not possess.
Same as sw22 telephone rubbish , I scored way below on everything and was told that's ok lol, how can you score nearly every question 0 then that's it on CBT , I can't get my head around it, 🤓🤓🤓🤓
Joining a positive, upbeat women's Bible study group that is accepting and loving and where the studies focus on personal growth, helping people in need and strengthening women's friendships.
I got told they could not help me , Ineeded more help x
I have never had the time nor the money for any therapy - ever.
Given the number of people who have never found CBT helpful it is ironic that research concludes it is and that it has mostly replaced the longer term therapies within the NHS - especially when common sense would suggest that issues around attachments, abuse and repetition of patterns of behaviour underlie many issues patients bring with them. Surely CAT would make more sense at the very least!
Hi Sue nice to see you. Hope you are well. What's CAT? Bev x
Sorry, Cognitive Analytic Therapy. Yes I am fine thanks, that's why I didn't write anything more on the site - find it easier to stay away from it when I'm feeling ok, otherwise it depresses me 
Hope you are ok too Bev. xx
One to one therapy.
cbt twice total waste of time
I bought a CBT book from The Bookstore and I found it to be most helpful. It has exercises in it for you to complete as you go along
I have been advised not to do CBT and be careful with mindfulness, as I am already an overthinker, so being asked to focus on my thoughts, emotions, feelings just starts a downward spiral.
I do crafts (knitting, cross-stitch, sewing etc.) or colouring books - anything that stops my mind going round in circles. It just needs to be something that focusses my mind on something outside of me. I also find music helps, but do have to be careful what kind of music, as sometimes it can take me to some dark places, because of memories or it just hitting a nerve.
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