Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Temporary thread

[saffie]

For me, it felt like I was doing something tangible and that alone was comforting.

I second that.

Before finding CBT I had C with someone who just wanted to rake over the past the whole time. I really didn't want to keep going over my family of orientation, (FOO), issues and I didn't want to keep chatting about the PTS I was suffering from or the transitional crisis that I was going through - I wanted coping methods - and that was eventually what I got through CBT.

CBT got me off of the whole cocktail of drugs I was on, AD's, beta blockers,valium etc., (zombie land). I can now emotionally cope without them. OK, I did need them for a while, but after a certain amount of time I needed to come off them and learn how to face my demons and cope with them myself.

I have this ability to cover up what really is bothering me in therapy and laugh things off, and it was my CBT therapist who was the first person who really managed to cut through all the cr*p I used to try and divert my previous C/Ts' with.