Posted by pseudoname on July 15, 2006, at 21:32:59
In reply to Re: Can't Get Over It - tried mindfulness?, posted by mayzee on July 15, 2006, at 13:23:36
I wanted to throw in with mayzee (Have we met?) about mindfulness, too. As I'm finally officially not depressed AND I'm trying to rejoin life (two separate things, it turns out), I'm finding that every day is full of "MacGyver"-type mental health challenges, and I have to put it together with stuff from everywhere: medication, insight, "restructuring" automatic thoughts, Baby Steps™, behavioral activation, little self-tricks, more insight, rinse, and repeat.
But it seems more and more that all of it comes to a common pathway of mindfulness – paying attention – and acceptance of what comes up inside me. But that path isn't direct or visible. There is no way (I'm thinking) to charge straight at acceptance. I think I'm finding that it's just the bottom line that I look for in every attempt at therapeutic change: something to embrace when it's offered. Bit by bit.
Hayes and Kabat Zinn and the other mindfulness folk like all psychotherapy schools, I think, overfocus and oversell. But I try to keep their ideas in the front of my head because I have no better tools.
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