Cognitive-behavioral therapy(CBT) is a psychological treatment that helps people learn how to analyze and change damaging or disturbing thought patterns that hurt behavior and emotions.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy focuses on changing the negative thoughts that can contribute to damaging emotions, depression, difficulties, and anxiety. These automatic negative thoughts have a detrimental effect on mood.
Through CBT, these thoughts are identified, replaced with more objective, and challenged realistic beliefs.
CBT aims to help analyze and challenge unhelpful thoughts and learn practical self-help strategies. These strategies bring about immediate positive changes in your quality of life.
CBT can be good for those who need support to challenge unhelpful thoughts that are stopping them from reaching their goals or living the life they want to live.
CBT aims to show how your thinking affects your mood.IT teaches you to think less negatively about yourself and your life. It tells me thinking negatively is a habit that can be finished like any other habit.
Using CBT to treat anxiety
Everyone feels anxious. Anxiety serves as a protection and can increase your performance in a stressful position. For example, the rush of anxiety that often shows up before a job interview or a big race can improve your performance. Unfortunately, this means that you always feel active or fearful no matter what activity. This can be distressing and get in the way of your daily life. When anxiety begins to interfere with your ability to function, you must start to learn some skills for coping with these anxious feelings. Where CBT can help, it focuses on changing patterns of thinking and beliefs associated with and producing anxiety.
Using CBT to treat depression
People with depression can have negative feelings about themselves, others, and the world around them. This negative thinking can become automatic so that you do not notice when your decision is invalid or unjust to yourself.
CBT can help people with depression by giving them tools to challenge their negative thoughts and, ultimately, them with more realistic and positive reviews. CBT is also used to help with psychological problems. In some cases, other forms of therapy used simultaneously may be suggested for best results.
CBT and thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
The main focus of CBT is that thought, feeling, and behaviors combine to affect a person’s quality of life. For example, severe shyness in social situations may come from thinking that other people will always find you dull and foolish.
This attitude could cause you to be distressed in social situations. This could lead to certain behaviors in social conditions, such as sweating, trembling, accelerated heart rate, or other uncomfortable symptoms. You could then feel upset with negative emotions and negative self-talk.
CBT aims to teach people that it is possible to have control over their feelings, thoughts, and behavior.
CBT helps you challenge and overcome automatic attitudes and use practical strategies to change or repair your behavior.
