CBT is a therapy based on understanding how things such as anxiety, low mood or phobia happen in the present. It is less interested in why things have happened.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists says that CBT is ‘one of the most effective treatments for conditions where anxiety or depression is the main problem’
Each of us has our own internal map of how the outside world is and what we can expect of that world. Like any map, it is not exactly the same as the thing it represents. It may have outright mistakes in it too. When we make our maps we are children with a child's way of thinking and understanding. Yet often we don't update these maps, but just go on using them.
What you feel and how you behave are shaped by what kind of map you have got.
CBT aims to help you change the way you think - the cognitive part - and the way you act - the behavioural part. It helps you understand the workings of your own mind, so that you come to be in better control. It gives you your 'owner's manual' for your brain.
CBT teaches you the cognitive approach to understanding feelings, thoughts and behaviours, so you can apply it yourself in your own life.
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