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A quarter of us suffer from a mental illness at any one time, mostly anxiety or depression. The cost to our economy is enormous - £105 billion a year, never mind the personal anguish - and for too long the only treatment was pills.
What a tragedy, then, that the first attempt to provide talking therapy to patients nationwide is using the wrong kind: cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
The theory behind CBT is that your thoughts control your feelings. Change your thoughts, and you change how you feel. If you keep getting anxious for no reason, perhaps worrying that something awful will happen or that you will make a fool of yourself, CBT teaches you to think the opposite.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2800946/is-nhs-s-therapy-depression-total-waste-time.html
What a tragedy, then, that the first attempt to provide talking therapy to patients nationwide is using the wrong kind: cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
The theory behind CBT is that your thoughts control your feelings. Change your thoughts, and you change how you feel. If you keep getting anxious for no reason, perhaps worrying that something awful will happen or that you will make a fool of yourself, CBT teaches you to think the opposite.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2800946/is-nhs-s-therapy-depression-total-waste-time.html