Comments for cbtish

Comment on Strengths by anxious girl

anxious girl — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:53:31 +0000

This was very interesting

Comment on Jack by Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:41:21 +0000

I agree, Elaine. I think that anyone who thinks that mindfulness is about creating distance or about splitting into two parts fundamentally misunderstands the practice of mindfulness. It is about experiencing and accepting the present without judging it or trying to escape it. I think mindfulness practice is very useful in CBT as a coping method that is both behavioral and cognitive.

Comment on Patterns by slobodan

slobodan — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:18:56 +0000

Second item is nice

Comment on Strengths by blue bird

blue bird — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:03:00 +0000

Interesting development. It would be great to see CBT incorporate positive psychology effectively and work with the patient’s strengths. But in practice, if the hard work of formulation isn’t done or done correctly, this could easily place even more burden on the patient and let the therapist off the hook, especially when things go wrong. It can all be covered over with ‘oh, we’re just building resistance!’ In context, i would hope that the therapist did not dismiss the patient so quickly…where are the steps in between?

And what if the patient doesn’t need to ‘build’ resilience? One thing is dealing with anxiety etc. and learning to use one’s strengths, another thing is having/not having resilience. They are not necessarily of the same order or the same kind of problem.

Comment on Walls by whatnot! | Refuge in Audacity

whatnot! | Refuge in Audacity — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:08:46 +0000

[...] I can’t stand DBT. Since you now all know I had BPD, and still deal with effects from time to time, you also get to hear that I don’t think too highly of this Major Fucking Breakthrough in treatment. “Walls” does a great job of highlighting reasons why. I used to be a little red face, not a little white one, and though I’m now a happy yellow one, that’s not because of DBT. It may be more because I struck out on my own. I took charge. I decided who got to mess with my brain and how. I became an educated patient, which is frankly the nightmare of too many practitioners. [...]

Comment on Hot babes by blue bird

blue bird — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:51:00 +0000

Thank you for this post. This is the first post I’ve found that links therapy with seduction and describes so candidly the ease with which a therapist can exploit a patient’s emotions, whether for narcissistic reasons or the ‘emotional vampirism’ you describe. In the aftermath of a Cbt therapy which did not end well, it’s somewhat reassuring to see described what I discovered with my last therapist, who, as far as I could tell, could only really function emotionally as a sexual/romantic seducer and/or friend, but could not inhabit a motherly role in the patient-therapist relation. The disconnect/connect was like switching on/off, hot/cold–luckily, once you’ve seen it, you know what it looks like and can steer clear!

Comment on Sums by George

George — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:50:20 +0000

Any info about “confounders” like medication use, could be the CBT by numbers is even less useful. But isnt this worse than placebo, a third should improve anyway.

Comment on Hot babes by Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:28:53 +0000

gud stuff

Comment on Alignment by Neuroskeptic

Neuroskeptic — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:54:16 +0000

Let’s get rid of distinctions! Then everything will be better… or worse… same thing.

Comment on Boundaries by CBTish

CBTish — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:14:38 +0000

Yes, you contacted me by writing that comment!

It would have worked better if you had supplied a real e-mail address

If you write a more detailed comment and ask me not to publish it, I won’t publish it.