Professor Laws said: "With an effect size that was close to zero, we found no suggestion that CBTp improves quality of life for people diagnosed with schizophrenia.
“Our findings have important implications for service users diagnosed with schizophrenia, the clinicians who work with them and also decision-making government agencies such as NICE, who might use such findings to update their guidelines and recommendations and thus improve the treatment advice for people diagnosed with schizophrenia.”
As far as psychotic symptoms go I would probably agree, but it helps a hell of a lot with anxiety which helps to reduce the frequency of psychotic symptoms in myself.
Quality of experience for people in talk therapy differs from person to person. I’m not abandoning all hope of it having a beneficial effect. Although, so far I’ve benefited overall more from A&D counseling than from CBT for sz. But that’s just me.
Yep I gotta say I do believe it’s limited, however talk about one’s life and everyday challenges, that has to be beneficial, just like it’s beneficial for most humans that walk the earth. Idle talk, though, coupled with a proclivity for inaction, spells disaster…
I find that medications help with maintaining insight, but not with negative symptoms. CBT has helped me develop positive habits not only to push back against positive symptoms, but also to deal with negative symptoms.
With all these psychological therapies some patients will take well to them while others will be dismissive or disbelieving. So on a large scale the impact of them might be small, but for some individual patients the benefit might be large.
Depending on ability to fund and willingness to give it a good attempt then particular individuals might benefit.
I asked for talk therapy but it got declined. Personally I think it’ll really help me mentally. That’s one of the reasons why I will be changing hospital’s soon.
I’ve had a lot of peer support group therapy as well as individual counselling. All of that therapy helped me with my childhood and young adult incest and wife abuse issues that I’d been living with and later on in my life individual therapy helped me with some of my depression and relationship and religious conflict issues. Therapy never did me any good when it came to my chronic paranoia, however.
The best therapy for me, was the day when my father apologized to me for the incest perpetrated upon me. And also the day when I fell out of love with my ex husband as if by magic. Both of these events occurred at about the same time. With these, I was set free. Never to be depressed again.