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Originally Posted by Chickenkicker
CBT changed my life greatly for the better. For 60yrs I carried terrible guilt and regret for the opportunities I missed, opportunities I had but failed at, money spent, relationships destroyed...you know the drill. I had a therapist that taught me how to dissolve all that like putting a sugar cube under running water.
Its all about cutting through the destructive nonsense flying around in your brain...finding out what you want to do...and doing it. All these terrible feelings I carried were crippling me...like I was stuck in quicksand. During one of our sessions she told me, when that blackbird lands on your shoulder...knock the bastard off. Nah...that's too simple, isn't it? Isn't recovering from something supposed to be a grandiose and complicated drawn-out affair?
No...it doesn't have to be to work. The simpler the better. I was amazed at how quickly I trained my brain to -zap- those negative thoughts out of my mind the mili-second they appeared. I was finally free!
Get all the therapy you can stand. You can't win the Lotto if you don't play. They may sit there droning on and on session after session...but one day lightning will strike when they say something that fits with your situation.
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Wow, great post. Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I have a lot of blackbirds in my life right now. I suppose I handle them well enough most of the time but sometimes I don't manage them appropriately. And it is always the "sometimes" that gets me in trouble or brings me down.
I saw on the national news last night that some sociopath is running around in Loveland. PLEASE stay safe. Cripes what next?