Posted by ace on December 1, 2005, at 8:05:22
In reply to Never known CBT to worsen a single person, posted by UgottaHaveHope on November 30, 2005, at 22:50:36
> I am a proponent that true healing comes from changing your thought patterns, but Im not pro-CBT necessarily. I dont use it, at least their methods.
>
> I know CBT does not help some ppl. But I have never ever heard that it "worsens" ppl. Please enlighten me on this.Sure thing. It made my depression and OCD MUCH worse. Listen carefully. I believe psychiatric syndromes represent a change in brain biochemistry/transport across membranes etc etc
In other words they represent a FUNCTIONAL problem. Now look at the person who has cut his arm. Very similiar to a 'cutin the brain (lax NT)
Now, if we get the person with the cut on the arm to constantly focus on the cut, it is worsened due to him metaphorically cutting a wound....same thing with the brain.....it aggravated my symptoms...I was scratching a wound (OCD, depression etc) that WORDS cant help....it needed biochemical intervention in the form of a medication.....so the cut on the arm and the 'cut' in the brain can be both worsened by focusing on them (in the case of the brain -- CBT)
just mY opinion...!
Ace
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