cognitive_behavioral_therapy
a clever disguise Was very effective for me in dealing with anxiety, panic and over-analysis.

Not as helpful with periods of depression. 		120605
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REAListic optimIST can be a useful treatment for addiction 120605
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TK even Blather addiction? 120605
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no reason despite interest in astrology, i don't usually take horoscopes too seriously. however, this week's was interesting:

"Do you know why flamingos have their distinctive orange-pink colour? It’s because of the carotene in the shrimp and other food they consume. If they change their diet, their feathers turn dull grey. That’s a dramatic example of the adage, “You are what you eat.” Let’s use it as a prompt to contemplate all the stuff you take into the holy temple of your body, Pisces. Not just the sandwiches and chocolate bars and alcohol, but also the images, sounds, ideas, emotions and energy you get from other people. Is the cumulative effect of all those things giving you the shape and colour and texture you want to have? If not, this would be a good time to adjust your intake."


it's something i'd already been thinking about, but wondering if it's possible, or what/who exactly is detrimental 		120606
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no reason i didn't actually mean to put this under cognitive_behavioral_therapy, but maybe it could help with this too 120606
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REAListic optimIST Possibly so, Toxic Kisses. 120608
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no reason blather_is_therapy 120608
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no reason not putting yourself in others' shoes, but looking at yourself objectively, like you think others would, in effort to cut yourself more slack 130212
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no reason separating yourself from yourself in order to gain knowledge 130212
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() (too much homework in that discipline) 130213
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in a silent way i think this only works when you find someone interested in getting to know (or at least understand) you on some level, instead of throwing something from a textbook at you and trying to slap a band-aid on a gunshot wound with medication before even doing the work necessary to determine whether or not you need to be medicated at all. i never did find that, and got tired of people trying to force me to fit into their rigid modes of thinking after a while, so i just said, "not for me." i'm glad there are good therapists out there who really do help people. i just haven't met any of them. 130213
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in a silent way i think i was thinking more of general "talk therapy", and not specifically of this...never mind me. 130213
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epitome of incomprehensibility I took an intro to psych course in college - other college - a long time ago - and I still remember one of the cognitive therapy principles/soundbites: "It's not the events, but how you react to them that matters."

This makes sense for smaller things, but for bigger things, maybe not... Was it cognitive therapy exactly that helped me stop having panic attacks? I think learning a few facts helped most of all (that while long-term stress damaging, a panic attack itself probably won't hurt you much; that remembering to breathe slowly will stop you from hyperventilating and then feeling faint, etc).

(I woke up last night with my heart pounding, again, and told myself to calm down and go back to sleep. I did.)

Anyway, I agree with whoever wrote cognitive therapy helps with anxiety but not necessarily with depression. 		130213
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e_o_i (correction: long-term stress *is* damaging) 130213
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in a silent way i'm glad you're in a place where you can calm yourself down when you have panic attacks at night. i know how frightening those can be, having experienced some permutation of them pretty much every night for the past four years and change. my thing is waking up convinced i'm in the process of having a stroke or a heart attack, which is buckets of fun. 130213
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