Posted by zeugma on November 20, 2004, at 17:35:33
In reply to Re: Buspar Survey » zeugma, posted by whitecat on November 20, 2004, at 0:34:25
> may i ask, why you said this:"cognitive behavioral therapy nearly landed me in the hospital"? did it just do nothing, or worsened your condition? was it group therapy?
> i'm asking because i have SP, i participated in some group behavioral therapy and just felt all the time it worthless for me, and also that i'd already discovered all its methods myself and use them almost all my life, and i still where i am.CBT worsened my condition immeasurably. It was individual therapy. The idea was to isolate the 'causes' of each anxious episode, and by analyzing them to uncover the supposedly 'irrational' thoughts that produced the anxiety. This excessively rationalistic theory may be a comfort to some, but is entirely baseless. I had already tried many of the ideas used in CBT long before I ever learned of it: the idea of 'exposing' myself to anxiety-provoking situations, for example, which is unavoidable anyway, since I did have to go to the supermarket on a regular basis. What CBT did for me was totrigger panic attacks that had been dormant since starting on nortriptyline a couple of years ago. The idea that by analyzing situations one can avoid the anxiety attendant on them assumes that cognition precedes both emotion and perception, and this is an utterly false assumption. One cannot disentwine cognition from its physiological underpinning and the emotions and perceptions that go with it.
-z
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