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Originally Posted by SlumberKitty
Yes, both of those things. And I feel like I'm supposed to feel better, so I will tell the therapist that I feel better because otherwise I get accused of not doing the therapy right. No offense to anyone to whom CBT is helpful, but to me it just feels like you're just supposed to be able to think your way out of your problems. If you change your thoughts, you'll change your emotions, and you'll change your behaviors. Never worked for me.
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Thank you for your input, SlumberKitty. I feel like if I don't tell my therapist that the CBT techniques are working I'm letting her down. Like, she's trying so hard to come up with her best way of doing therapy while using video and I feel horribly guilty if I shoot down her plan.
I'm not saying that CBT is entirely unhelpful for me, because I find that I am gaining some success with it. I just have questions that nag at my mind. Maybe the questions are a resistance to change. Maybe they're an intuitive sense that this CBT stuff is BS. I just don't know yet.
So you've stopped seeing Pastor T? I know you were trying to decide whether or not to continue with him.