How cognitive therapy evolves from correcting negative thoughts to correcting negative stimulus
Cognitive therapy is a battery of questions designed to help you dispute negative thoughts. After a year of practicing this, I've picked up on enough patterns so that I can condense and reorganize them into just three questions:
- Is the problem in question even real?
- If the problem in question is real, does it even matter?
- What are some easy solutions to your problem already right in front of you?
In the first three months, 90% of my sessions were really exercises in answering questions 1 and 2. This parallels the marked improvement the average patient sees early on. Nowadays, my sessions are less than 10 minutes, and only 50% of them lead to a realignment of my thinking (questions 1 and 2), while as 50% lead to direct action to fix my problems.
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