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Topic	People tell me I should see a therapist because I'm depressed.
joe40001 08/20/18 9:07:55 PM #3:	BlameAnesthesia posted... joe40001 posted... Particularly when parts of the depression come from what I find to be true in my outlook. Without knowing the details of your therapy, a more structured approach like cognitive behavioral therapy aims to correct these automatic negative thought patterns. Your world outlook is most certainly a colored lens you view the world through and it's not the only one. It's a useless platitude to simply tell you this and that's why an intervention like CBT is better equipped to address it. Also, medication can also help. Neural patterns are not very flexible, to put it simply. We are our habits, and that includes our thought habits. Medication can help create a more "chemically suited" environment to "carve out" a better neural network that is a bit more resilient against negative emotions and experiences. It's why therapy + medication in combination leads to better outcomes than either medicine or therapy alone. I'm sure a neuroscientist might find issues with that explanation, but it's the best way I can explain it to a layperson. I totally agree. What is weird for me then is just how people react like I should be better by now after years of therapy including cbt. I think I probably should probably be better too, so I'm not sure what I've been doing wrong. Be patient when it comes to change doesn't seem to be working so I feel like I need to do something different, but I don't know what. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 <cite>joe40001 posted [p:907246947] in People tel... [t:76921552]...</cite> <quote><cite>BlameAnesthesia posted...</cite> <quote><cite>joe40001 posted...</cite> <quote>Particularly when parts of the depression come from what I find to be true in my outlook.</quote> Without knowing the details of your therapy, a more structured approach like cognitive behavioral therapy aims to correct these automatic negative thought patterns. Your world outlook is most certainly a colored lens you view the world through and it's not the only one. It's a useless platitude to simply tell you this and that's why an intervention like CBT is better equipped to address it. Also, medication can also help. Neural patterns are not very flexible, to put it simply. We are our habits, and that includes our thought habits. Medication can help create a more "chemically suited" environment to "carve out" a better neural network that is a bit more resilient against negative emotions and experiences. It's why therapy + medication in combination leads to better outcomes than either medicine or therapy alone. I'm sure a neuroscientist might find issues with that explanation, but it's the best way I can explain it to a layperson.</quote> I totally agree. What is weird for me then is just how people react like I should be better by now after years of therapy including cbt. I think I probably should probably be better too, so I'm not sure what I've been doing wrong. Be patient when it comes to change doesn't seem to be working so I feel like I need to do something different, but I don't know what. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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