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Posted 5/16/2009 12:08 PM (GMT 0)

CBT Girl,

I am always glad to see you have been here to bring this topic to the top.  I promote this therapy and I know it takes hard work and commitment but anything worth having usually takes hard work.............

Come on everyone, if you need help look into the CBT program.

Kitt

Posted 5/16/2009 4:57 PM (GMT 0)
This is my first post here and I'm happy to see so many others that are deriving benefits from cbt. My therapist gave me a copy of the book by sam obitz with the TEA form exercise this past January and I started doing them with her and after some trial and error I started to do them right and got the results others here are talking about. I had my last session a couple of weeks ago and my therapist advised me to try coming to a few support sites like this one so I am glad I have found others who are using cbt. I know most of you are a lot more experienced than me but I will try and add what I can from my limited experience. I will say I am feeling better than I have in years and I'm not even on any meds now. Thanks to bigbear for starting this topic and good for you for working so hard to get better.
Posted 5/17/2009 1:31 PM (GMT 0)

Dear Daftone,

Welcome to HealingWell and congratulations on your success with CBT.

Support groups are a place for people to give and receive both emotional and practical support as well as to exchange information. People with health conditions, as well as their friends and families find support groups to be a valuable resource and get confirmation that their feelings are "normal", educate others, or just let off steam. IMHO joining a support group is joining a family.

Welcome to the family.

You are welcome to start a thread of your very own and that way you will meet lots of wonderful members.  Just click on the New Topic button and the screen will open up for you.  Title your thread whatever you like but something catchy always helps.  :) 

Again a warm welcome.

Kitt

Posted 5/18/2009 5:38 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks for the welcome stkitt. sounds like this is a great community, I feel fortunate to have found it. I was just excited to see other cbt fans because until recently I had never heard of it. Thx also for the advice about starting my own topic. Maybe I'll title it free cars idea is that catchy enough? Actually that sounds like spam lol. Thanks again for the warm welcome and nice meeting you.
Posted 6/1/2009 6:55 PM (GMT 0)
Kitt I just took your advice and posted a short narrative on my experience in the anxiety forum under the title "Free cars" Just kidding tongue The title I posted under is "It was my thoughts- not me" wink
Posted 6/3/2009 11:33 AM (GMT 0)
did a lot of dbt in 2004. excellent for us borderlines!! new treatment therapy for borderlines coming out of australia is cat. committment and acceptance therapy. know more when i read up on it. thx, sorry for the late post, catching up!! have a great day!! smile and the world smiles back!! jamie
Posted 6/3/2009 12:56 PM (GMT 0)

Thanks daftone............... glad to see you posting.

I wish you peace,

Kitt

Posted 6/3/2009 6:22 PM (GMT 0)
no worries cbt girl, keep well. jamie
Posted 6/26/2009 8:49 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks Kitt. What's the difference between cbt, dbt and cat?
Posted 6/26/2009 11:00 PM (GMT 0)
CBT focus is on current issues and symptoms versus more traditional forms of therapy which tend to focus on a person's past history. The usual format is weekly therapy sessions coupled with daily practice exercises designed to help the patient apply CBT skills in their home environment.

DBT Therapy

There are four main types of skills that are covered in DBT skills training. These are:

  • Mindfulness Meditation Skills. These skills center on learning to observe, describe and participate in all experiences (including thoughts, sensations, emotions and things happening externally in the environment) without judging these experiences as "good" or "bad." These are considered "core" skills that are necessary in order to implement the other DBT skills successfully.

  • Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills. The focus of this skill module is on learning to successfully assert your needs and to manage conflict in relationships.

  • Distress Tolerance Skills. The distress tolerance skills module promotes learning ways to accept and tolerate distress without doing anything that will make the distress worse in the long run (e.g., engaging in self-harm).

  • Emotion Regulation Skills. In this module, patients learn to identify and manage emotional reactions.

Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is a system of treatment in which the therapist helps the patient to understand why things have gone wrong in the past – and explores how to make sure that they don’t go wrong in the future.

Posted 6/30/2009 2:05 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks, those are really detailed answers :-)
Do you do either of the other ones in addition to cbt?
Posted 8/12/2009 6:14 PM (GMT 0)

daftone said...
Kitt I just took your advice and posted a short narrative on my experience in the anxiety forum under the title "Free cars" Just kidding tongue The title I posted under is "It was my thoughts- not me" wink

Hi everyone and I hope you all are having a great summer! I am doing well and just wanted to check in and say "hi" to everyone.

Kitt thanks for outlining the differences between CBT and DBT and CAT.

Daftone welcome :-) And I will look for that thread you started.

Take care everyone!
Posted 8/12/2009 7:26 PM (GMT 0)
Hi there CBTgirl,

I am so happy that you popped in to let us know how you are doing. It is always wonderful to read your posts.

Hugs, Karen
Posted 8/12/2009 7:38 PM (GMT 0)
Hey CBT Girl,

How are you my friend?  It is always good to see you online here and to have you bring up the CBT threads. 

We do get a lot of questions re CBT so hearing from one who has had such great success with CBT is a great resource for the members.

Hope all has been well with you.

Gentle Hugs,

Kitt

Posted 8/13/2009 11:32 AM (GMT 0)
i am going to do some research on c.a.t later this year. i think it will be a key treatment indicator for the effective understanding of borderline and affective disorders. obviously an area of interest to me being a borderline. i think dbt is still effective, although becoming a bit dated. cheers.

-jamie

Posted 9/27/2009 5:05 AM (GMT 0)
Thx for the welcome and all your replies CBT girl. I hope my posts will be as well thought of yours seem to be here someday tongue
Posted 9/27/2009 2:50 PM (GMT 0)
Hi All

Great thread very informative and good to here about peoples successes with these types of therapy. I did 24 sessions of CAT last year and found it very helpful as I needed to work out were all my problems started and how they developed over the years and it was good to talk that period of my life with a clinical phycologist. I discovered that my GAD/Depression started at school were i had a bad time due to dyslexia and kind of spiraled from there. I did a short course of CBT this year 6 sessions and think it is a good follow up on CAT and have got a review this coming Fri which is good as struggling at the moment. I would recommend these type of therapy to everyone as I think they do work and can help you deal with things better.

Ben
Posted 10/15/2009 10:06 PM (GMT 0)
Hibbee, Awesome post, thanks for sharing your expertise. I don't know much about CAT but I am glad it helped you wink  

As for CBT I'm sorry you only got six sessions but hopefully you got good at countering your thoughts in the TEA forms during that time. It took me a while to get the hang of them but now that I have I do them almost everyday and I feel like I am continuing to get better and better at reducing and deasling with my anxiety. Take care and Hope to see more of your awesome posts yeah

Posted 10/16/2009 4:10 PM (GMT 0)
Hi daftone

I wish I had more that six sessions as I am really struggling with keeping things going. My depression is really bad at the moment and finding it hard to do anything let alone the CBT. Glad that it is working for you and thanks for your post.

Ben
Posted 10/16/2009 6:52 PM (GMT 0)
ben, popping into say that your in my thoughts. even though i am not a fan of cbt i am very pleased for those that it is conducive/effective for. hoping you feel beter soon. many healings my friend. jamie.
Posted 10/16/2009 8:18 PM (GMT 0)
Jamie

Thank you. I have not decided if I am a fan yet, I am finding that because I am feeling depressed I have not got the motivation to do all the work that is needed on a daily basis which I find frustrating. But saying that I can understand and see how CBT is a good therapy and why so many people find it useful. I will keep using the things I learned during cbt when I can and hopefully things will start to improve, I did find it very useful going through the process as it made me aware of all the cycles which are causing my anxiety/depression which was a big positive of therapy and still would recommend it to people who are dealing with mental illness. Take care Jamie.

Ben
Posted 10/16/2009 10:55 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Ben,

I am glad that cbt is helping you some. Give it time, have patience. Your work will pay off. Just try to keep going with the flow.

Hugs, Karen
Posted 10/17/2009 7:04 AM (GMT 0)
Karen

Thanks, yes will try and keep it going just finding it hard work,
Posted 10/17/2009 7:04 AM (GMT 0)
Karen

Thanks, yes will try and keep it going just finding it hard work,
Posted 10/17/2009 11:36 AM (GMT 0)
  1. keep fightin' the good fight ben. glad to see that the process of cbt is helping you. thx 4 the reply. cheers. your friend, jamie. :-)
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