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i tried CBT when my life was a mess last year. it helped me accomplish some goals for a while, but it didn't last. now i'm going to analysis 5 times a week, an

• awakeasleep 15y ago
  How many hours a week do you spend in therapy? And what is the price to you? Not trying to make a point in reference to CBT, I'm just curious about the numbers, if you feel like sharing.
  • MarkPNeyer 15y ago
    i go to 5 one hour sessions each week. the therapy and medication cost me over 2 thousand dollars each month, but i credit them with totally turning my life around. before this therapy i had zero emotionally intelligence; i would feel things so intensely that i would be overwhelmed with the emotion and unable to think about it rationally. now i am building the ability to step back and see what is happening. another really helpful move i took was to build the website https://www.thoughtplot.org https://www.thoughtplot.org, which has been incredibly valuable for me in understanding my mood. at cbt, i told the guy that i sometimes become convinced that i am supposed to trigger the singularity via a giant public sex orgy. instead of trying to figure out why that is or what i could do about it, he was like "why dont you make it a goal to eat vegetables today?" it actually helped, but it was adressing the symptoms (psychosis) rather than the problem (a feeling of lonliness and self hatred.)