How does cognitive-behavioral therapy work for addicts?

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is not a single body of techniques. It is grown from a very small number to quite a different sort of pool of interventions. Yes, it maybe one-on-one talk therapy, but unlike dynamic therapy it's not about what happened in childhood. It's all here and now. It's what you can do tomorrow. You talk about triggers; you talk about feelings and thinking that leads to involvement in destructive behavior. Cognitive-behavior therapy goes beyond all that talking. Educational homework; assignments will be given with the expectations that you would practice certain strategies about how relax yourself or how just to be with your feelings. A big tool today in cognitive behavioral therapy is to just be with your feelings. Lots of people with addiction hate being with their feelings and they use these behaviors to escape uncomfortable feelings. So, cognitive behavior will sort of focus on groups, meditation for example, and bio feedback to help one regulate and to stay with just uncomfortable feelings and be able to manage without escaping them. For more information visit http://www.habitdoc.com

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[leapsplashafrog]

Cbt is so pointless in the long term that it's an insult to your humanity

[synapper]

So let me boil this down to the basic over-riding concept here. Just be with your feelings, just let them happen, just experience them and eh...that's it! and they pay these guys 80,000 dollars a year to tell people that. I'm becoming a CBTherapist.

[Neilgs]

To control and mange one' behaviors and just "..be with one's feelings" is not necessarily ONE IOTA to gain access to them. The reason that CBT is so popular is that the general population want to focus in the here and now (i.e., the management and control of symptoms and the inability to engage in dialog and process!) The fact that the past (i.e. childhood traumas) is NOT part of the process essentially fans the flames of repression (underlying guilt, shame):

Congats! CBT: Pandemic diathesis!

[bravone1]

great video!. Thanks

[wolverin007qwet]

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[BinAlladin]

Shambling sockery of luminous songcack

[c197373]

Did he say number 2?

[c197373]

Shambling mockery of a comeback.

[BinAlladin]

I´m Rocket Head! You bucket head....

[c197373]

Get a grip on yourself bucket head!