how does this work, cbt
CBT founder Aaron T Beck gives a detailed explanation of CBT. Includes a section on CBT as applied to Sz negative symptoms about half way through the video.
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There are many workbooks and such that you can use. This is the one my brother uses
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Workbooks are awesome. Also recommend keeping a recovery diary. Set goals, keep track of when you’ve hit them (e.g. showering daily or going for walks). Make a note of symptoms that you need to overcome. Try to find strategies to overcome them.
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Skip ahead to 45:25 in the Beck CBT video above to see his CBT interpretation of Sz negative symptoms.
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Here’s a link to the book that Beck wrote about CBT as applied to Sz.
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While there is no doubt that there are people whose negative symptoms stem from defeatist beliefs and a series of failures from the past that keep haunting them, we should not generalize. For instance, in my case this theory does not apply. I was a high achiever who always knew how to put bad experiences behind him and try better next time. I had almost everything going for me - a good career, a healthy lifestyle etc. I was planning however a career shift because of various reasons and I was somewhat suffering from the fact that I had not yet found my significant other. None of these reasons seem to account for the heavy burden of negative symptoms that I started having right after the psychotic break 3 years ago.
In conclusion there is more to it than meets the eye, cbt looks promising for many but is not universal.
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I got a big energy boost from daily training with Lumosity. The energy boost would last all day every day that I did the training. It’s a bit like going to the gym though in that it’s difficult to get up the initiative to start, and if you miss a few days training it’s difficult to get back into it, but the energizing effects are huge.
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