Posted by sexylexy on March 6, 2004, at 16:29:49
In reply to Re: Question for Lexy, posted by mystic on March 5, 2004, at 22:18:03
Hey Mystic and anyone who is interested.
I personally think a therapist who practices cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)are typically the most effective. In fact, CBT does the same thing that medication does to the brain, it just takes a longer time.
CBT believes that problems influence your thoughts which makes those nasty little automatic thoughts pop in your head. These automatic thoughts influence your emotions which is why you feel bad. A CBT therapist teaches you how to recgonize these thoughts, ingnore them and eventually make the go away.
As for a therapist. Unfortunatley, each person is different just like a medication works better for some people than others, but here are some of the most important things.
1. someone who pays attention to your need. Some therapist try to set their own agenda and not attend to you.2. It is also important to be able to have a therapist who you can be comfortable with. Some seem to work against you, you want some who you feel like you are on a team with working for the same thing, not someone working against you.
3. It is also important to find a therapist who looks at you as your own person, not your diagnoses. Sometimes when therapist have been around to long they forget that they are working with people and just use a theraputic method that is taylored for depression not you.
4. A therapist who is aware of your religious views if this is important to you. One of the big things we learn in school is that everyone has biases. You need to find someone who is either not bias towards your sex, race, creed ect, ect, ect or someone who has able to overcome their biases.
Over all just find someone who feels right, who feels comfortable and is willing to fight this battle with you.
God Bless,
Lexy
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