Monday, October 20, 2008

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Tomorrow I am being assessed by the NHS Primary Care Trust. There is a section that focuses on mental health.
Hopefully this will help me and the way that I think. I can be quite negative, mostly to myself. The saying 'You are your own worst enemy' can be very true, especially for someone who like me can easily think the worst of everything. Things can get really hard for me and this is the next step in getting better and being able to come off the drugs completely one day. Not thinking too far ahead yet, I still have a very long way to go.
Some days are better than others, generally more better days.
I had the week off last week from work. It was nice but I pretty much spent the whole time sleeping. One of the joyous symptoms of depression along with some memory loss. Not fun when I forget things at work. Such little things and people don't realise that these 'symptoms' are misdiagnosed. I never associated all the things (I learnt some of them in a seminary I attended last week) with me, but there you go.
I can only go up and that is where I plan on going.

3 comments:

Ray said...

Hey, hope it's going well. This post was a couple of weeks ago now so just wondering.
CBD works really well but it is hard work.

Ray said...

That should have read CBT, by the way!!

cognitive behaviour therapy said...

Studies have shown that when a cognitive behavior therapy is used with antidepressant medication therapy, draws much better results than the psychotherapy alone.