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Old Jan 05, 2018, 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by rainbow8 View Post
David Burns wrote Feeling Good , the CBT book. I think I own 2 copies. It's helpful to an extent, just like DBT was for me. Is your T a follower of CBT?
Yep, that's the book T recommended and that I got. I read through a bunch of it, but haven't tried many of the exercises yet. He uses a bunch of different techniques/modalities, including CBT. Though in our initial phone consultation, I told him I didn't think CBT works for me, and he said he'd make a note of that. Then I mentioned it again on my intake form.

I think it may have just been something about how ex-T did it though that didn't work for me, like her approach. Or maybe just where I was at that point when I started seeing her 6 years ago--like my anxiety and panic were too intense to really work on it in a more rational way like CBT...she stopped trying to do that with me after a bit, and I guess it shifted to just, I don't know, generic talk therapy, maybe sort of psychodynamic, but not really (because that's more MC's thing).