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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a discipline of psychotherapy that focusses on what you think, Cognition, and how that affects the way you act, your Behaviour.
Where other forms of therapy may deal with the stress of daily events as and when they arise, CBT has been proven to be very effective in helping people suffering with specific emotional difficulties including alcohol and drug addictions, chronic anxiety, depression, eating disorders or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
CBT works particularly well with people suffering from Alcohol Dependency and Alcohol Abuse problems as well as Social Phobia, as these are the result of a combination of circumstance and disease. Addressing the underlying causes of anxiety is the best form of anxiety treatment.
For instance:
In the supermarket, you see an old school friend who seems to ignore you. Your natural reaction is to feel hurt by this. Thoughts like ‘what did I do?’, ‘don’t they like me any more?’ circle your head (sound familiar?). These worries grow, ruin your day and sap your strength and encourage you to ‘award’ yourself a drink for your stress. CBT faces these feelings at their start, making you analyse why your initial reaction was a negative one and allowing you to replace that reaction with a positive one. So replacing the negative, low feelings with one possibly of concern for the other persons wellfare and alleviating yourself of the internalised guilt.
Problems are assessed as composite ‘ingredients’, ie. the many factors that have come together, both personal and circumstantial, that lead to the negative emotion. Then each ingredient is dealt with individually until the client has learnt to cope with the problem in its entirety.
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