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Standard disclaimer that I’m not a doctor and this shouldn’t be taken as medical advice, but you might find cognitive Behavorial therapy interesting. The gist
by gdubs 5y ago
Standard disclaimer that I’m not a doctor and this shouldn’t be taken as medical advice, but you might find cognitive Behavorial therapy interesting.
The gist is that there’s a common set of cognitive distortions that we fall into. Things like, “fortune telling,” where we assume some bad outcome is going to happen even if we can’t really say that for certain.
You basically write down all the things that are troubling you, and then see if you can call-out those cognitive distortions.
This is just a 10,000 foot perspective, but it’s actually pretty straightforward.
The book “Feeling Good” popularized it.
- perrygeo 5y agoCBT does not work for everyone. It's "pretty straightforward" for sure, almost laughbly so. It's a culturally-insenstitive framework for mental illness that, as you exlicitly state, is about "calling out those cognitive distortions". Which implicitly assumes that your cognition IS distorted. - what if that creep who's stalking you actually IS a rapist? - what if your strained work situation actually IS a hostile takeover that's trying to sabatoge your company? - what if your family member's strange behavior actually IS a red light for suicide? - what if your investment in X IS actually going to tank and your family is going broke? CBT is so focussed on the idea that anxieties are "cogntive distortions" that it completely alientates anyone for whom those worries are realized, regularly.
- ben1040 5y agoAgree on this. My therapist had the list printed out and laminated. During sessions where I'd describe an anxious situation, they'd hand me the sheet and a dry-erase marker to check off all the distortions in play in that situation.