People who suffer from depressive illnesses have had enough of depression drugs that simply do not work. It has been found that many of the most popular treatments for depression today are old hat style therapies that have been largely ignored the past 30 years. These include naturopathic therapies using oils and herbs, electric shock therapies and psychotherapies that include Behavior Cognitive depression therapy. Behavior Cognitive depression therapy is a throwback to the early history of psychology when we were only beginning to understand the inner workings of the mind and how we become depressed. Psychiatrists have not learned much in the past 30 years other than just how many side effects the human body can produce from chemical treatments and how to reject drugs in the system. The people who actually suffer from the illnesses that affect the mind are ready to try something new, or even something old that actually worked without a huge bout of nausea or sexual side effects. After going through however many drug treatments, patients are asking for therapies that teach them how to undo the behaviors and thoughts that lead to their depression and are finding that one of the best methods for that is Behavior Cognitive depression therapy.
The basis of Behavior Cognitive depression therapy is that the things we feel are caused by our own thoughts about things, people, the environment and events of our lives more so than the actual individual things. We may seek to change things that are outside of us thinking that it will improve the way we feel. Actually, we need to change the way we think about the things outside and we will automatically change the way we feel and affect changes in our thought and behavior patterns. Behavior Cognitive depression therapy helps the patient develop the skills to think and behave differently rather than expecting other people and things to change.
Using Behavior Cognitive depression therapy
The therapist takes you through a series of questions regarding situations that may result in depressive feelings. The patient is taught that it is their way of viewing things that often leads to the depression rather than simply the things that occur. Being upset because a particular person did or did not do a particular action could be the result of one’s own selfishness rather than the inconsiderate behavior of the other. When someone prone to depression deals with such a situation, they are likely to turn the upset feelings into depressive ones because they follow a linear pattern of incorrect assumptions, ill feelings and ultimately self blame and loathing. The Behavior Cognitive depression therapy approach teaches the patient that it is not necessarily that they are to blame for the event that caused the depression and that there may be a viable alternative answer to the issue; one that would occur to someone not prone to depressive states.
Problem Solving
The patient learns to solve problems in a similar way and works to eliminate thoughts that lead to depression. Behavior Cognitive depression therapy is a method of teaching the person how to deal with life and that not everything that happens is an attempt on their happiness or sanity, just that life happens and we have to work to understand it.
