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Originally Posted by qwertykeyboard
Sometimes I tell my T that I am feeling really, really low, and she always asks, "Think back, and what do you think triggered it?"
Honestly this questions really pisses me the **** off because most of the time nothing ****ing triggered it. That to me feels like what depression is - being pissed and sad and angry and depressed for no reason and the wrong times. Why can't she understand that.
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Hi qwerty, Your T is probably CBT oriented and wants to identify the thoughts that trigger your depressed feelings and reason about them and talk you out of them. In my experience, there IS almost always something that triggers bad feelings, although the something can be very subtle. In my case, for instance it could have been hearing someone who merely spoke with a similar accent to someone who upset me in the past or a fleeting thought about something that reminded me of being upset in the past about something.
I think that it's hard for the original CBT kind of approach to work, just because that little transition from the subtle trigger into the depressed mode is unconscious and really hard to control. Because of that, it's hard to talk or reason your way out of it. That's why I think that *training* your way out of it is likely to work much better. That's the domain of that "SNAP CLUB" explained in these notes:
http://egg.bu.edu/~youssef/SNAP_CLUB...0164151576.pdf
It's generally in the domain of "Behavioral Activation" therapy.
- vital