What is your experience with cognitive behavioral therapy? Did it help? Was it good? Or was it a waste of your time?
I've found "Emotional Alchemy" by Tara Bennett-Goleman to be helpful. She defines the automatic chain of emotional reactions as emotional schemas (maladaptive emotional habits triggered by certain situations). She says that cultivating mindfulness, or the practice of becoming aware of your thoughts, feelings, sensations, etc. on a moment to moment basis will allow you to notice when your schemas have been triggered. She suggests meditating to cultivate mindfulness.Do the rest of you not have a similar problem ie. in determining how you get from being in a normal state to being in a heightened state of anxiety?? Its such a chain reaction for me...i can't break it down like that. I'm in it before i have chance to analyse exactly how it started...for the very reason that i'm in the process of getting into that state, im in no fit position to calmly rationalise what initial thoughts led me to spiral into anxiety hell..
I actually didn't take the CBT group with Dr. Richards, but instead one of his former students. I was in San Francisco at the time.Good to here Drew I only have His online course and cant get to him and dont have the money I am starting CBT next week with someone near my home I hope it helps??
It was a waste of time and money for me.What is your experience with cognitive behavioral therapy? Did it help? Was it good? Or was it a waste of your time?