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I know its a personal question but who is having CBT? (or have used it in the past).
How are you getting on with it, is it making any difference?
I accept that it will work better for some people.
I dont need it as I passed my test before 2001 and only want to ride a moped.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CBT
*wonders what sexual depravity "riding a moped" involves?
Yes I had it, initially for fear of flying. It turned into a bit of a life hack for me. It focusses on the way you think and deal with situations mentally and then provides a toolbag to change that. In my case anxiety when flying was pretty much a spiral of doom, it it about breaking the spiral.
You do need to continually practise to break these habits. For life in general I find it easier to spot and then counter negative thinking, which helps me generally.
Yes,
I've actually done 3 kinds.
Computer Based Training, Compulsory Basic Training to ride a Bike and indeed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for anxiety. I suppose we're talking about the latter.
For me, it worked almost instantly, only in so much as someone who I trusted (or rather a video of them) telling me something I already knew so I believed it helped. Finishing was really tough, once I stopped having endless panic attacks I really didn't want to open that box again, so I could only really bring myself to do more when I was having a really bad day.
I've far from cured, but I know when I'm being anxious now, which is much better than KNOWING it's all going to go horribly wrong. There's still a lot of things, daft things really I find very hard and to be honest I'm working around the instead of trying to fix them, I should do something about that
Doh!!
Yes, Cognitive behavioural therapy
It really requires practice, I should put more time in. I sometimes use the phrases to calm me down, especially "Its just annoying" to redescribe situations, rather than catastrophising. A lot of it comes down to teaching yourself a new language - I guess that's the best way to approach it, as if you were learning French or Italian.
The society around us has a vested interest in using full-blown extreme language which in the long run can make us overreact in unhealthy ways - parents to discipline children, the church to control people, the media to engage people.
I've been using the Headspace mindfulness and meditation app for around 5 years, and have also done an online CBT course via the NHS. I think Headspace works better for me.
Yes.
I’ve only had three sessions so far (over 6 weeks, so sub optimal).
I’ve found personal insight but it’s too early to draw any conclusions with respects to its efficacy. Also, somewhat muddied but by the conclusion of the root/stem of some of my issues (ND for those that understand).
I’ve also started using headspace but haven’t routinised it properly yet...
I had it when I was suffering (some depression) and anxiety. It worked wonders. Mainly sorted the anxiety out ( through the nhs ) Depression from bipolar really required meds though that I got at a later stage though a private harley street doc ( mood stabiliziers ). If I had left my bipolar to the nhs I would still be depressed or on anti depressants which didn't work very well for me as I am autistic and the nhs did not work the bipolar bit out. It's stupid that nhs gp's need to sort out depression when specialists can find out alot more ( although mine was a special case really - like me 😉 )
The anxiety was pretty bad and affected my life lot's. CBT worked though and stopped it completely through making sense of my irrational thoughts.
I had homework and had to make notes in a folder to challenge situations and thoughts that occured. Not sure how many sessions you get now but mine took a while and was lucky enough to complete it although once you have the tools you can continue with it through the nhs. It took some conviction though.
Had 7 group CBT sessions on the NHS when having big problems with anxiety and depression a few years back.
I'll be honest, I didn't do the homework and it therefore didn't really work. I was still quite ****ed up and not ready to do it, and the group environment meant the counselors time was spread too thin in the sessions.
I also struggled with mindfulness and similar apps, mainly as simply getting 15 minutes to myself to even try it properly was hard at the time.
I did get half a dozen 121 counseling sessions through our work support scheme, and that did help me take a step back and reassess what the issues were and how I saw the situations and then dealt with them.
As with a lot of the last 20 years, I wish I'd used the opportunity I had for CBT a whole lot better.
I had CBT provided by the NHS a few years ago to treat my social anxiety. It was group sessions, a 2 hour session a week over 6 weeks I think.
The main positive for me with the group was hearing how others suffered from social anxiety in a variety of ways. I knew I wasn't alone.
It helped to a certain extent but I'm not 'cured'! I want to try something similar again as I really need to work on it myself as I find it hard to keep the negative thoughts away.