Think Right Now

[dontcare]

I know I'm starting to sound pretty desperate; that would be because I am pretty desperate. Has anyone heard of the Think Right Now series? They claim that if you listen to their tapes, you'll automatically know how to make friends. They seem to have good reviews.

[yakubu]

Originally Posted by dontcare

I know I'm starting to sound pretty desperate; that would be because I am pretty desperate. Has anyone heard of the Think Right Now series? They claim that if you listen to their tapes, you'll automatically know how to make friends. They seem to have good reviews.

its amazing. ive sed it so many times on this forum and on other forums. ive advised so many people to use it. it s brilliant. its for real. just great .

its sad to see that someone resorts to using words such as desperate becasue theyve considered using thinkrightnow. it just shows the menatlity and mindsets of human beings - sceptism.

thinkrightnow is the best treatment out there for sa. it cures it at the root and it does it faster and more effortlessly than anything else out there so why must one be desperate if they resort to trying it. if you ask me a person needs to be desperate to put chemicals in their system (medication ) to ttreat SA yet nobody thinks twice about doing so

[MavenMI6Agent009]

I read somewhere that cbt and medication is the best treatment choice for social anxiety specifically by programs like Dr thomas richards overcoming social anxiety step by step and jonathan berent's overcoming shyness programs and as well with thinkrightnow.com I have tried both programs and still struggle with sa but maybe I should try out another program. self confidence and self worth is what we need.

[yakubu]

Originally Posted by MavenMI6Agent009

I read somewhere that cbt and medication is the best treatment choice for social anxiety specifically by programs like Dr thomas richards overcoming social anxiety step by step and jonathan berent's overcoming shyness programs and as well with thinkrightnow.com I have tried both programs and still struggle with sa but maybe I should try out another program. self confidence and self worth is what we need.

thinkrightnow is cbt its just an extremely faster and more successful and effortless way of applying it.

combining meds with cbt absolutely baffles me. any cbt therapist will tell you that your thoughts is the root cause of the problem and thats what cbt is for - changing your thoughts. they they offer meds too which masks the problem and doesnt deal with the root.

it baffles me

[nightrain]

Originally Posted by yakubu

thinkrightnow is cbt its just an extremely faster and more successful and effortless way of applying it.

combining meds with cbt absolutely baffles me. any cbt therapist will tell you that your thoughts is the root cause of the problem and thats what cbt is for - changing your thoughts. they they offer meds too which masks the problem and doesnt deal with the root.

it baffles me

I think they want our money

[shyguitar]

I have never heard of think right now before. It sounds intresting though I will give anything a try. i mean its not going to make my social anxiety worse so whats the harm in it.

[yakubu]

Originally Posted by nightrain

I think they want our money

who ?

[yakubu]

Originally Posted by shyguitar

I have never heard of think right now before. It sounds intresting though I will give anything a try. i mean its not going to make my social anxiety worse so whats the harm in it.

perfect attitude. its a moneyback guarantee so there's nothing to lose.

living with sa is the biggest risk you can take. in the past i had an attitude of ''ill try absolutely anything to overcome sa cos nothing is more riskier than wasting my life living with sa'' and i did try try everything. after trying it all i can say thinkrightnow is the best

[Drew]

Think Right Now addresses the cognitive portion of CBT, but not the behavioral aspect. It certainly seems to help some people, but it's inaccurate to say it's the same thing as CBT and "works faster".

I gave it a try a couple years ago and found it a little beneficial. Dr Richard's CBT combined with a group brought about more significant positive changes for me.

Everyone is different.

[yakubu]

Originally Posted by Drew

Think Right Now addresses the cognitive portion of CBT, but not the behavioral aspect. It certainly seems to help some people, but it's inaccurate to say it's the same thing as CBT and "works faster".

I gave it a try a couple years ago and found it a little beneficial. Dr Richard's CBT combined with a group brought about more significant positive changes for me.

Everyone is different.

im sorry but you need to get your facts right before you comment on this subject becasue thinkrightnow addresses both the cognitive and behavioural portion of cbt not just the cognitive. when you use thinkrightnow your thoughts dramatically change and so does your behaviour

all behvaiours are run uncocniously. the behaviour of sa (avoidance etc..) all starts at the unconcious level. it starts with your unconcious beleifs being activated which results in you having automatic thoughts in your mind and leaves you in an anxious state. these thoughts plus the state you are in make you behave a certain way.

with thinkrightnow your old beleifs do not get activated anymore. instead the news ones, that thinkrightnow install in you, get activated and this leaves you in a new state with new automatic thoughts. these new thoughts and this new state make your behaviour automatically change and you find yourself enjoying doing things you used to hate doing and hating things you used to love doing

it is the same as cbt and it does work faster. a lot faster in fact. the root of sa is unconious beleifs. cbt aims to change those beleifs by conciously changing your thoughts and behaviour and chipping away at the beleifs. thinkrightnow has the same goal but goes about it in a different way. think rightnow directly changes those belefis at an unconcious level.

if you have a tree and you start at the top and saw of piece by peice eventually reaching the bottom you will get rid of the tree. but if you start at the bottom and just hack away the whole tree will fall.

whcih way is quicker and easier ? the latter. both reach the same outcome but one is faster and one is easier.

thinkrightnow is equivilent to the latter

[Drew]

Originally Posted by yakubu

im sorry but you need to get your facts right before you comment on this subject becasue thinkrightnow addresses both the cognitive and behavioural portion of cbt not just the cognitive. when you use thinkrightnow your thoughts dramatically change and so does your behaviour

all behvaiours are run uncocniously. the behaviour of sa (avoidance etc..) all starts at the unconcious level. it starts with your unconcious beleifs being activated which results in you having automatic thoughts in your mind and leaves you in an anxious state. these thoughts plus the state you are in make you behave a certain way.

with thinkrightnow your old beleifs do not get activated anymore. instead the news ones, that thinkrightnow install in you, get activated and this leaves you in a new state with new automatic thoughts. these new thoughts and this new state make your behaviour automatically change and you find yourself enjoying doing things you used to hate doing and hating things you used to love doing

it is the same as cbt and it does work faster. a lot faster in fact. the root of sa is unconious beleifs. cbt aims to change those beleifs by conciously changing your thoughts and behaviour and chipping away at the beleifs. thinkrightnow has the same goal but goes about it in a different way. think rightnow directly changes those belefis at an unconcious level.

if you have a tree and you start at the top and saw of piece by peice eventually reaching the bottom you will get rid of the tree. but if you start at the bottom and just hack away the whole tree will fall.

whcih way is quicker and easier ? the latter. both reach the same outcome but one is faster and one is easier.

thinkrightnow is equivilent to the latter

It's obvious you feel very strongly about this and I imagine that's because you've personally experienced positive change with it, which is great.

My point was that it's not same as CBT because it does not have the same two components. Yes, it can certainly deal with both the cognitive and behavioral aspects, but it does so in a different way than CBT as you expressed.

I'd like to elaborate on my point of it being "inaccurate to say it works faster". I meant inaccurate in a sense that it's not a good idea to generalize about the efficacy of a treatment without research studies to back up such statements.

As I said before ThinkRightNow obviously helps some people, but it's not necessarily going to work better or faster for everyone.

That being said, I appreciate you sharing your experiences with ThinkRightNow and I might give it another try.

Drew

[IllusionOfHappiness]

Originally Posted by yakubu

if you ask me a person needs to be desperate to put chemicals in their system (medication ) to ttreat SA yet nobody thinks twice about doing so

Desperation definitely factors into it. Think about the severe cases of this problem. Not everyone can just go to therapy and be 100% comfortable with this approach.

Saying nobody thinks twice about doing so is such a broad and offensive generalization. I don't particularly enjoy having to medicate myself so that I don't have constant panic attacks when I leave my house.

Think before you type, please. Everyone is different, and I don't know why I see so many posts claiming otherwise.

[sanspants08]

Originally Posted by IllusionOfHappiness

Desperation definitely factors into it. Think about the severe cases of this problem. Not everyone can just go to therapy and be 100% comfortable with this approach.

Saying nobody thinks twice about doing so is such a broad and offensive generalization. I don't particularly enjoy having to medicate myself so that I don't have constant panic attacks when I leave my house.

Think before you type, please. Everyone is different, and I don't know why I see so many posts claiming otherwise.

x10+1

[yakubu]

Originally Posted by IllusionOfHappiness

Desperation definitely factors into it. Think about the severe cases of this problem. Not everyone can just go to therapy and be 100% comfortable with this approach.

Saying nobody thinks twice about doing so is such a broad and offensive generalization. I don't particularly enjoy having to medicate myself so that I don't have constant panic attacks when I leave my house.

Think before you type, please. Everyone is different, and I don't know why I see so many posts claiming otherwise.

you are just taking wot ive sed out of context.

many people have to be desperate to try things like think rightnow because they beleive it to be a risk to try it. thinkrightnow cant harm u and its a money back guarantee.

loads and loads and loads of people use medication but wont try things like think rightnow even though medication is proven to be risky

thats all im getting at

[sanspants08]

Originally Posted by yakubu

if you ask me a person needs to be desperate to put chemicals in their system (medication ) to ttreat SA yet nobody thinks twice about doing so

Originally Posted by Illusionofhappiness

Saying nobody thinks twice about doing so is such a broad and offensive generalization.

Originally Posted by yakubu

you are just taking wot ive sed out of context.

Regardless of the context, the statement is wrong.

I'm sure that Illusion understands your point about Thinkrightnow, as do I.

[yakubu]

Originally Posted by sanspants08

Regardless of the context, the statement is wrong.

I'm sure that Illusion understands your point about Thinkrightnow, as do I.

when i sed nobody i didnt actually mean nobody or everybody. its just a figure of speech . for example you leave a club at 4am in the moring and someone says to you ''whats it like in there tonight'' and you reply ''EVERYONE is off their heads, they are all wasted''. not everyone is wasted but you dont say '' a certain percentage of the people in there are sober and a certain percent are wasted''

i didnt mean it as a generalization hence u are taking wot im saying out of context

[sanspants08]

Originally Posted by yakubu

when i sed nobody i didnt actually mean nobody or everybody. its just a figure of speech . for example you leave a club at 4am in the moring and someone says to you ''whats it like in there tonight'' and you reply ''EVERYONE is off their heads, they are all wasted''. not everyone is wasted but you dont say '' a certain percentage of the people in there are sober and a certain percent are wasted''

i didnt mean it as a generalization hence u are taking wot im saying out of context

It doesn't matter if you didn't mean it as a generalization, it is a generalization, regardless of context. And, therefore, wrong.

If you want to use that manner of speech to describe a group of people you're not talking to, chances are that no one will call you out on it. The problem is that you're not just talking about us, you're talking to us.

No, I don't say "A certain percentage..." when talking about the club, but I don't say "all" unless everyone really is wasted. There you can see firsthand what's going on, whereas here you can't.

Morale of the story: Overgeneralizing to a group of people about them, including when doing so as a "figure of speech," still means saying something inaccurate that will cause objection. (ok, I'm done now )

[Conquistador]

I'll have to look into this think right now series. Is it just for s.a.d. or do they have series for other things?

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Here's their full catalog: http://www.thinkrightnow.com/catalog.asp

[Jayseph]

I'm really interested in trying this, it'd be my first attempt at self-help for my SA so if anybody could give me more feedback on their experiences I'd be more than grateful!