ok, that’s great. It sounds like ‘something in the middle’..., so what should I do? I don’t have any diagnosable pyschological illness, or even any problems a psychiatrist would be interested in, but I do sometimes have emotional reactions that I’d like to control.
Is CBT aimed specifically at helping people with pschological conditions? Or does it have useful elements that perfectly healthy people can use to help them get over perfeclty normal problems? And how can I find out about them?
Is CBT aimed specifically at helping people with pschological conditions? Or does it have useful elements that perfectly healthy people can use to help them get over perfeclty normal problems? And how can I find out about them?
I suggest that perfectly healthy people don’t have problems, otherewise they wouldn’t be perfectly healthy. As for whether you can find CBT useful without subjecting yourself to labels or stigma, absolutely. In fact, having a brain that isn’t acutely disabled by any particular problem can make the techniques somewhat easier to apply.
ok, that’s great. It sounds like ‘something in the middle’..., so what should I do? I don’t have any diagnosable pyschological illness, or even any problems a psychiatrist would be interested in, but I do sometimes have emotional reactions that I’d like to control.
Is CBT aimed specifically at helping people with pschological conditions? Or does it have useful elements that perfectly healthy people can use to help them get over perfeclty normal problems? And how can I find out about them?
I suggest that perfectly healthy people don’t have problems, otherewise they wouldn’t be perfectly healthy. As for whether you can find CBT useful without subjecting yourself to labels or stigma, absolutely. In fact, having a brain that isn’t acutely disabled by any particular problem can make the techniques somewhat easier to apply.
I recommend Change Your Thinking as a useful introduction.