Can anyone recommend one for me please? Thank you.
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Meds don’t work for SAD. (Just read a journal article on this last week.)
But here’s some stuff that does…
REBT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_emotive_behavior_therapy
Schematherapy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_Therapy
Learned Optimism – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_optimism
Standard CBT – https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Treatment/Psychotherapy & scroll down
MBSR – http://www.mindfullivingprograms.com/whatMBSR.php
MBCT - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22340145
ACT – https://contextualscience.org/act
SEPT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_Experiencing
SMPT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorimotor_psychotherapy
Get two or more of those “down,” and one can use the skills therefrom in this way to combat the delusional thinking and emotional reactivity back of SAD very quickly: 10 StEP – http://pairadocks.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-10-steps-of-emotion-processing.html
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Was on paxil and was eventually weaned (tapered off) after about 5 years. Had bad anxiety going through school, can’t really say that it helped now that I’ve been off of it for awhile. More a placebo effect more than anything.
The med’s affect different people differently. I’ve heard some of the SSRI’s can help with social anxiety. And there are the benzo’s. And there is the placebo effect. If you think something is helping you might be less anxious.
my doctor is treating my anxiety with lorazepam and amitriptyline. He recently raised the dose of the anti-depressant/anxiety med.
Is 10 steps too “advanced” for someone just starting these therapies? Who has PTSD and DPDR…
@Bluey, completely off topic, I found out today that that little frog is extinct! 
RIP 
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Because humans built roads and destroyed their habitat. Can’t find the link
Not always, but it usually requires that one has done enough of a CBT and at least one MBCT or somatic experiencing p/t to be able to do the observing, perceiving, recognizing, etc., from a bank of the kind of experience one gets in the vipassana-style insight meditations used in those MBCTs. I have, however, seen people “get it” because they can understand the meanings of the terms used experientially without ever having practiced an insight meditation, per se.
There’s no inherent danger in the 10 StEPs for most neurotic and borderline spectrum patients, but a psychotic patient – especially one not well stabilized with anti-P meds – might “get lost” in his or her mind (and voices) trying to use the 10 StEPs without guidance.
SSRIs are long-way-around-the-block, dopamine-chain neurostimulants… which makes them really "iffy* and potentially counter-productive for sz patients who almost always need dopamaine chain suppression rather than stimulation. Benzodiazepines are similarly dangerous for sz pts (and a lot of other people) because they induce tolerance, dependence and addiction in very short order… as well as cause rebound effects that enhance and then interfere with what anti-Ps do.
And neither of them (as is equally the case with anti-Ps) get at the actual cause of the SAD, which is a combination of genetically induced hypersensitivity plus negative social conditioning.
No one has yet found a way to correct the former in all cases, though the somatic experiencing psychotherapies do seem to have at least a limiting effect on the genetically predisposed hyper sensitivity. And the CBTs, MBCTs and SEPs all seem to attack the negative social conditioning. (The SEPs will pretty likely be the new “gold standard” for PTSD – which so often underlies SAD – in the coming years.)
CBTs, like…
REBT – Rational emotive behavior therapy - Wikipedia
Schematherapy – Schema therapy - Wikipedia
Learned Optimism – Learned optimism - Wikipedia
Standard CBT – Psychotherapy | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness & scroll down
MBCTs, like…
DBT – http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm
MBSR – Welcome to the Mindful Living Blog
MBCT - Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: theory and practice - PubMed
ACT – ACT | Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
SEPs like…
MBBT – An Introduction to Mind-Body Bridging & the I-System – New Harbinger Publications, Inc
SEPT – Somatic experiencing - Wikipedia
SMPT – Sensorimotor psychotherapy - Wikipedia
10 StEP – Pair A Docks: The 10 StEPs of Emotion Processing
Ok, ill print out the ten steps and review them with my cbt therapist.
I have a feeling id get lost. Hopefully i can get more stable on Saphris. Im only barely “stable” as it is.
Thabks.
Peace and Love!
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