Thread: Mindfulness
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Old May 10, 2012, 05:08 AM
KazzaX KazzaX is offline
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I don't know, it sounds like an Australian thing?

Remember back in the days where if there was anything wrong with your child (behaviour wise) they would diagnose them ADHD and put them on ritalin? its like that here with mindfulness. Every therapist i have ever been to has wanted to do it hehe. Its the new fad.

For only 10 free sessions, they checking up on you after 6, I would give it another try but concentrate on doing something different than the last zillion tries, see if you can understand it better for yourself, get better examples or something, rather than just go along
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There isn't really anything you CAN do different. Its all the same. It's a set thing that you do.

I don't know what you are trying to treat but I'd come up with a few specific ways mindfulness could help what you are trying to treat (it apparently helps depression and/or anxiety) and concentrate on as specific a goal as possible, since the time is short. What do you want?


Im trying to treat refractory (treatment resistant) depression. I have no idea how mindfulness relates to it though. They say it makes you live in the moment. But if you have long term depression, being in the moment is just as bad as being in the past or the future. I just want something that will lessen the depression. No idea how though, I'm not a psychologist.