Three principles of cognitive therapy

The problem-solving and coping techniques you learn will encompass every crisis in modern life, from minor irritations to major emotional collapse.These will include realistic problems such as divorce,death or failure as well as those vague, chronic problems that seem to have no obvious external cause,such as low self-confidence, frustration, guilt, or apathy. 

The question may now occur to you:
"Is this just another self-help pop psychology?"

Actually, cognitive therapy is one of the first form of psychotherapy which has been shown to be effective through rigorous scientific research under the critical scurrility of the academic community. This therapy is unique in having professional evaluation and validation at the highest academic levels.It is not just another self-help fad but a major development that has become an important part of the main street of modern psychiatric research and practice. Cognitive therapy's academic foundation has enhanced its impact and should give it staying power for years to come.But don't be turned off by the professional status that cognitive therapy has acquired. Unlike much rational psychotherapy, it is not occult and anti-intuitive. It is practical and based on common sense, and you can make it work for you.


The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your "cognition," or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things, your perceptions, mental attitude, and beliefs.It includes the way you interpret things what you say about something or someone to yourself. you feel the way to you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment how have you been feelings as you read this? 

You might have been thinking:
"cognitive therapy sounds too good to be true. it would never work for me?"

If your thoughts run along these lines you are feeling skeptical or even discouraged. What causes you to feel that way? your thoughts. you create those feelings by the dialogue you are having with yourself about this study.

Conversely, you may have felt a sudden uplift in mood because you thoughts:
" hey, this sounds like something which might finally help me."

Your emotional reaction is generated not by the sentences you are reading but by the way you are thinking. The moment you have certain thought and believe it, you will experience an immediate emotional response. Your thought actually creates the emotion. 

The second principle is that when you are fling depress your thoughts are dominated by a pervasive negativity.You perceive not only yourself but the entire world in dark, gloomy terms.What is even worse you will come to believe things really are as bad as you imagine them to be.If you are substantially depressed, you will even begin to believe that things always have been and always will be negative.As you look into your past, you remember all the bad things that have happened to you.As you try to imagine the future, you see only emptiness or unending problems and anguish.This bleak vision creates a sense of hopelessness.This feeling is absolutely illogical, but it seems so real that you have convinced yourself that your inadequacy will go on forever.

The third principle is of substantial philosophical and therapeutic importance.Our research has documented that the negative thoughts which cause your emotional turmoil nearly always contain gross distortions. although these thoughts appear valid, you will learn that they are irrational or just plain wrong, and that twisted thinking is a major cause of your suffering.

The implications are important. your depression is probably not based on accurate perceptions of reality but is often the product of mental slippage.

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