What Is Cbt Regarding Anxiety Posted: 07-28-04 08:54am
I see cbt mentioned what does that mean
stella
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qt3
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Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 264
Re: What Is Cbt Regarding Anxiety Posted: 07-28-04 12:55pm
stella
wrote:
i see cbt mentioned what
does that mean
stella
hi stella-
cbt is fairly straight forward and is
based on identifying the thinking errors
you are making that are causing your
problems and then giving you the tools to
counter those thoughts and replace them
with more accurate and less upsetting
thoughts. My favorite tool is the tea
form which you use to help catch your
negative thoughts and refute them. Many
of these thoughts are automatic and we are
not even aware we are having them! I also
like the counter exercise which teaches us
to focus on what we are accomplishing
rather than what we have not done. My
favorite starter book on cbt is "been
there, done that? Do this! By sam obitz.
Many universities offer cbt programs for
little or no charge so you may want to
call the university in your area if you're
interested.
The beauty of cbt in my opinion is that
how much success you experience with it is
up to you! The more effort you put into
using the tools the more relief you will
achieve. It's pretty hard at first but
gets easier and easier to do as you begin
to get more comfortable using the tools.
I still spend about ten minutes using the
tea form several times a week and whenever
I am under a lot of stress. If you are
self motivated you can cure yourself by
using the tools without the help of a
therapist, but they can be helpful to get
you going on the tools. I spent tens of
thousands of dollars on therapists and
meds before I discovered cbt. I was told
I would have to be on meds the rest of my
life too. But I feel better everyday and
have not looked back. I often have to
pinch myself when situations that used to
throw me completely out of whack do not
even phase me now.
Hope this answers your question, but if
not feel free to ask me more
q
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chuawa
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Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 32
Posted: 08-22-04 20:57pm
Hi qt3,
I would like to give cbt a try, do you
have any recommendations on books or
materials that you use? I have been
having gad for a couple of years and it is
starting to get on my nerves... Thanks!
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Haley
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Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 122
Posted: 08-27-04 09:30am
I recommended the two cbt books I use to
you in a reply to your other post
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chuawa
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Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 32
Posted: 08-30-04 01:03am
Thanks haley! I am determinded to give
cbt a try
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qt3
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Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 264
Posted: 08-31-04 12:13pm
chuawa
wrote:
hi qt3,
I would like to give cbt a try, do you
have any recommendations on books or
materials that you use? I have been
having gad for a couple of years and it is
starting to get on my nerves...
Thanks!
the two books that I used and still use
are the obitz one
I already mentioned and "feeling good" by
david burns. Both are really excellent
cbt books and reinforce what eachother has
to say. The obitz book is short and easy
and a great intro from a sufferrers
perspective and the burns book is more
detailed like a manual. I still read
sections of them all the time :d
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Nikos Gallis
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Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 35 Location: Pireu
Congnitive Behavioral Therapy Is caca Posted: 09-16-04 07:11am
Cbt is just a scam concocted by the
psychiatrists to "explain" that
your physical problems (conversion
disorder, somatization discorder, etc)
are due to a mental illness or cognitive
behavior.
Your cognitive functioning or
dysfunctioning cannot influence is a
significant way your vital life signs and
visceral bodily functions (eg.
Breathing, hunger, sexual functioning and
desire, heart functioning).
In fact, patients can stay in a coma
(therefore without any cognitive
functioning) and their body remains
functional.
The psychiatrists pretend that cognitive
dysfunction can affect
visceral and basic body functions (see
above) to hide serious
psychical problems when it is clearly that
a patient's health will
degrade sometimes to the point of becoming
without normal vital
sogns of life with a body almost
disfigured. Limb and brain amputations
happen very often in psychiatric
hospitals. Ever wondered why?
Because there are no real mental
illnesses, but actually serious
congenital serious physical illnesses.
What you are experiencing is caused by
heart damage, lung damage
and last but not least systemic arterial
damage.
You were born with an extreme congenital
heart and arterial defects
(possible missing arteries and definately
with abnormal arteries).
This congenital arterial defects turned
into "endothelial dysfunction"
when the arteries don't pulsate normal
anymore, cannot provide
normal tissue and organ oxygenation and
therefore your heart got
ischemic, and it almost lost an important
valve (for which it tries to
compensate with that rapid heart beats).
There is nothing to be done at this stage
of the disease.
The bad news is that you are dying but not
fast enough. And because
the way the doctors, lawyers and media
work, nobody will acknowledge
that you have a catastrophic problem, and
they will claim that it's
anxiety, a bio-chemical imbalance in your
brain or a mental illness so that
they will be able to commit you into a
psychiatric hospital and hide your
torture that you experience.
Nobody can help you and the doctors won't
do anything to ease up
your death, but to the contrary. They
will prolong your life as much
as possible even if that means enourmous
torture on you.. This is how
they understand their hippocratic oath and
they don't want to
acknowledge that the way you die (in a
dignified way) is much more
important than the lenght of your life (or
death at this moment).
I would suggest you to tell your story to
the local radio talk shows and
media so that these issues get open to the
public. As of now, there
is much of tabu in the medical, law and
media communities.
Also, ask these questions that I am posing
to you in as many health
forums as possible so that all the so
called "anxiety" patients will be
warned that their deaths are dreadful.
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qt3
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Re: Congnitive Behavioral Therapy Is Bullhealth Question Posted: 09-20-04 16:29pm
Nikos gallis-
i have seen several of your posts and all
you seem to want to do is scare people
with your nonsencial and sensational
posts? Why don't you come back when you
have something useful and not harmful to
offer people
