How can you help yourself for CBT to work best it's necessary to zero in on your particular needs?
Are you struggling with Bloomwood, an uncontrollable temper, pervasive worry or something else?
Let's consider how CBT can be used to address different conditions and allow you to help yourself through
that particular issues that you're facing.
Depression, thoughts, feelings and behaviors work together in a downward spiral.
When we are depressed, low mood and more motivation make it hard to find pleasure, even in things
we used to enjoy.
We see the world and ourselves in a negative light.
As our thoughts and mood darken, we're likely to pull back from many of our activities, further deepening
our depression.
CBT can help us break the habit of negative thinking, which can make it easier to get more active and
turn greater engagement with life, lifts our mood and boosts our view of ourselves.
If we practice mindfulness, we can further improve our mood as we learn to take our thoughts less seriously.
Taken together, these practices can create a virtuous circle of mutually reinforcing improvements in
our thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
And anxiety, when we care about an outcome that's uncertain, the situation is likely to cause us some
anxiety.
For example, we might be nervous about getting to a job interview and time low to moderate levels of
an anxiety are perfectly normal, in fact.
And anxiety is useful because being slightly anxious heightens our attention, increases our motivation,
and provides us with energy.
To perform well beyond a certain point, though, and anxiety becomes counterproductive.
For example, excessive social anxiety can interfere with our ability to think on our feet or be present
with the person we are talking to.
CBT offers many tools for managing and anxiety techniques like progressive muscle relaxation and meditation
can directly calm and agitated nervous system cognitive techniques can address the exaggerated feeling
of danger that goes along with an anxiety.
Exposure is also observable to combat and anxiety.
As we face the situations we fear with repetitive practice, the situations become less scary and an
anxiety provoking.