I reckon CBT is a load of tosh
Some people set great store by it. I’m interested in dialectical behavioral therapy myself.
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I went through a lot of therapists trying to find the ‘answer’
But since sz is chemical, you need the doctor first.
Then CBT or whatever helps you deal with life problems.
But it really all depends if the therapist personality/ approach meshes with your own. Many just deal with the worried well and don’t know how to help sz. If you don’t feel like you’re being helped, you aren’t. Then move on to one that can deal with a real illness.
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For me… CBT wasn’t for the root of this illness. My meds are.
But the extra stuff that comes from this illness like getting lost in my mind and jumping topic when I talk. It did help with that.
It also helped with the catastrophic thinking and managing the panic that comes with the paranoia.
It also helped me break out of some of my OCD behavior that some of my sneaky brained thinking can stir up.
So for the actual illness of Sz… I’m not sure that would work. But for the extra stuff that seems to travel with my Sz… it has helped me weed the garden of my mind.
CBT is rubbish, I don’t need sum shrink who gets off telling people how to be, most psychologists go into it because their complete f***k ups already, it gets them off, besides I think your lieing, we all know what care in the community in the UK means, it means being monitored and having no friends or relationships, as for relationships I used to think I was missing out not having a girlfriend, how wrong I was there, make mine an MR2 or a Bugatti veron
CBT helps, but for psychotic illnesses, CBT is just not as effective, for me meds are my mainstay treatment.
I prefer DBT better, I use bits of both CBT and DBT -
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CBT has more scientific evidence behind it than any other psychological therapy - and has proven so effective that its the number 1 treatment approach for depression and anxiety in the UK.
http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg90/ifp/chapter/treatments-for-mild-to-moderate-depression
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CBT was useful for my anxiety. It helped teach me that my thoughts contributed a LOT to it, and I wasn’t really aware of them before.
CBT was not useful for my psychotic disorder because it wasn’t designed to treat those disorders. There are modified versions of it that are being adapted to better treat psychotic disorders, but the research is slow going.
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