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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is evidence based and has reasonably good effectiveness - about 60% of people going through it experience good recovery. https://ww

by DanBC 7y ago

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is evidence based and has reasonably good effectiveness - about 60% of people going through it experience good recovery. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-cbt/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-... One good thing about it is that it only lasts about 12 to 16 weeks. Find someone with qualifications, experience, and a registration. Check the pricing over 21 weeks (this is the maximum you'd possibly use, but you're likely to use fewer lessons.) Then book in. Don't be afraid to change therapist if the one you have is terrible. The first session will talk about the CBT model, and ask you what you want to achieve, and talk about confidentiality and payment. You'll need to be able to identify emotions and hot thoughts, but the therapy should help you with that. EDIT: a lot of people are recommending exercise. It's important to exercise for your physical health. The evidence for benefits to mental health is somewhat weaker, and we've only recently started getting good quality evidence that it works. For you it may work, it may not, and it's probably not going to hurt to try unless the failure of exercise to lift your mood is going to feed into negative thinking.

occamschainsaw 7y ago
Not OP, but I have been thinking of starting CBT since a couple of months. I have never done therapy before and I feel pretty intimidated to just go to a therapist. How do you know if the therapist is right for you? Also, do you have any experience with app based therapists where you talk over the phone?
- DanBC 7y ago
  Hi! It is anxiety proviking because it's a weird situation that we just don't get much experience of. I've had two rounds of CBT in England. The first was called "low intensity" -- this was group work, and the sessions were ruin by two therapists but they changed about halfway through. It ran for 6 weeks. I didn't find that much use. Later I had "high intensity" CBT, which was one to one and face to face with an experienced therapist. Things I found useful: she listened to me; she correctly identified the things that I felt were a problem that I wanted to work on; she changed some of her wa of working to fit me. (I hate the phone, so she used email to contact me if needed, which doesn't sound like much but it can be really tricky to get NHS people to email patients). I don't have experience with phone based therapy, but I do know it's used in the English NHS so there must be some evidence it works somewhere. I really hope that you give it a go, and that it makes a difference!

by DanBC 7y ago

occamschainsaw 7y ago

Not OP, but I have been thinking of starting CBT since a couple of months. I have never done therapy before and I feel pretty intimidated to just go to a therapist. How do you know if the therapist is right for you? Also, do you have any experience with app based therapists where you talk over the phone?

DanBC 7y ago
Hi! It is anxiety proviking because it's a weird situation that we just don't get much experience of. I've had two rounds of CBT in England. The first was called "low intensity" -- this was group work, and the sessions were ruin by two therapists but they changed about halfway through. It ran for 6 weeks. I didn't find that much use. Later I had "high intensity" CBT, which was one to one and face to face with an experienced therapist. Things I found useful: she listened to me; she correctly identified the things that I felt were a problem that I wanted to work on; she changed some of her wa of working to fit me. (I hate the phone, so she used email to contact me if needed, which doesn't sound like much but it can be really tricky to get NHS people to email patients). I don't have experience with phone based therapy, but I do know it's used in the English NHS so there must be some evidence it works somewhere. I really hope that you give it a go, and that it makes a difference!