A Clinical Psychologist's blog entry shares an article that shows cognitive disputing techniques are unnecessary for treatment because behavior therapy or even meds are more effective in countering automatic thinking! If this is the case, then just using either exposure therapy alone or exposure therapy with drug treatment should suffice! And by exposure therapy, they probably mean behavioral experiments.
In fact, I encountered about two or three sources showing that exposure therapy is effective enough to treat SAD. This isn't because of habituation but of being able to challenge your automatic thoughts through changing your behavior. As for myself, I'm only going to use Behavioral Experiments and Lexapro to transform my SAD into mere shyness!
Edit: I would like to apologize to the early posters of this thread for my misleading op. Obviously, I should have been more clearer.
In fact, I encountered about two or three sources showing that exposure therapy is effective enough to treat SAD. This isn't because of habituation but of being able to challenge your automatic thoughts through changing your behavior. As for myself, I'm only going to use Behavioral Experiments and Lexapro to transform my SAD into mere shyness!
Edit: I would like to apologize to the early posters of this thread for my misleading op. Obviously, I should have been more clearer.