Joey McGee
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Interesting how you mention she challenged you and that was a key aspect, it seems the more deliberate and intense your effort the more change you get, seems to be the rule in all things when changing your brain.
I know what you mean there seems to be a lot of variation in how people think about and use cbt, it's also something that the self-help and the new age communities have taken up and tried to make their own with poor results, and of course therapists have a fairly wide latitude to use their own experience and style to try and help you adopt new cognitive behaviors. Hopefully their specialists will help you get to a new relapse resilient level.
Have you heard that aerobic exercise can be helpful? There have been a handful of studies and there are more ongoing. There is a blurb about it in the The Oxford Handbook of Obsessive Compulsive and Spectrum Disorders which hopefully comes up when you click that link. Not surprising since exercise works on anxiety and depression and they prescribe the same meds for it. In those kinds of studies they tend to do short sessions 3 times a week, if you go for 30-45 minutes every single day and go for 12 weeks and see how that does you, that could be a huge deal.
Hey whatever works right, hey we all facepalm when we get epically stressed not that far off from tapping yourself in between the eyebrows with the end of your finger right. lol
I know what you mean there seems to be a lot of variation in how people think about and use cbt, it's also something that the self-help and the new age communities have taken up and tried to make their own with poor results, and of course therapists have a fairly wide latitude to use their own experience and style to try and help you adopt new cognitive behaviors. Hopefully their specialists will help you get to a new relapse resilient level.
Have you heard that aerobic exercise can be helpful? There have been a handful of studies and there are more ongoing. There is a blurb about it in the The Oxford Handbook of Obsessive Compulsive and Spectrum Disorders which hopefully comes up when you click that link. Not surprising since exercise works on anxiety and depression and they prescribe the same meds for it. In those kinds of studies they tend to do short sessions 3 times a week, if you go for 30-45 minutes every single day and go for 12 weeks and see how that does you, that could be a huge deal.
Hey whatever works right, hey we all facepalm when we get epically stressed not that far off from tapping yourself in between the eyebrows with the end of your finger right. lol