What is mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and how can it help you

If people have problems with anxiety, depression, stress, they can expect to feel much better at the end of an eight week group. As they learn the meditation and mindfulness techniques, what they will be learning are ways to help themselves in their life to feel less worried, less troubled by fears, and to gain better control over problems like emotional overeating or insomnia, problems we know are very tied to depression and anxiety. As well, for people who have problems with pain and headaches, the group can be helpful for them especially if that pain is made worse by worry and tension.

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[leapsplashafrog]

How can 8 weeks change a lifetime of trauma? Are depression and anxiety just things that can be changed? Try telling that to people who have been abused, beaten or tortured. Surely people have right in 2011 to be listened to and to explore their pain over as long as they need?

[Aeythvaenn]

@KristyC Thank you for your eloquent and thoroughly argued irrefutable argument. You must have spent so much time and thought about this. Your eplanation is so complete, logical and scientific. Oh, I wish everyone was like you.

[superwelshgandalf]

So all the scientific research that proves its effectiveness is bullshit? I guess we will have to bow down to your superior knowledge.....not!