Posted by TriedEveryMedication on September 14, 2010, at 12:32:47
In reply to Re: CBT made me much worse, actually. *ME TOO*, posted by violette on September 12, 2010, at 12:01:41
hi violette,
I had 16 sessions of CBT that included mock interactions/exposure with interns.
It seems like the exposure made me worse - the more exposure to social situations I had, the more withdrawn I became.
after the sessions, I started doubting the main premise of CBT - that thoughts lead to emotions. I've never seen any empirical evidence presented for this.
In fact, I've seen a lot of evidence presented in other fields (behavioral economics) that suggests emotions lead to thoughts.
I still don't entirely know what went wrong with the CBT though.
> TriedEveryMedication,
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> I'm curious as to how cbt made you worse off, if you don't mind sharing..thanks. This is something i'd like to see researched in ways that i haven't seen....and i'm trying to get a better picture of what the problem is with those unresponsive to cbt other than what i've seen already researched..
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