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Subject: Re: cognitive behavioral therapy...

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bittersweet

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Date Posted: 20:35:33 09/16/04 Thu
In reply to: Deb 's message, "Re: cognitive behavioral therapy..." on 20:24:15 09/16/04 Thu

>>Cognitive Therapy is pretty good, because it gives you
>>a sense of developing some control over the parts of
>>your life that are controllable--especially the
>>thought process. There are a lot of good lessons to be
>>learned from it--it doesn't solve everything, but it's
>>a great tool to have in your mental "toolbox."
>>
>>Very best wishes Jane! I hope you are feeling better.
>
>Sure! I did extensive cognitive therapy when I was in
>the hospital 3 years ago and use it to this day. I
>often refer to my notes/handouts and sometimes read up
>on the web about it myself. I firmly believe what I
>learned and have continued to incorporate into my
>daily routine has helped me immensly resolve an awful
>lot of issues and change my behaviours and thought
>processes to the more positive. That, along with the
>other coping and grounding skills I learned, have
>helped me to maintain a healthy BMI now for 3 years.
>It still gets tough and it always will be, I think ~
>you never "get over" an ED (like an alcoholic or drug
>addict ~ once your brain gets short-wired into
>unhealthy and destructive behaviours it will always be
>a demon in the back of your mind just waiting to
>pounce.
>
>The trick is to make a real and conscience effort to
>want to change and pay attention to what you learn and
>make the effort to incorporate it into your everyday
>life. It can be done! And I would highly recommend
>cog. therapy for anyone in our situation. You can try
>it on your own by doing searches on the web and
>reading up on it, going to your library and educating
>yourself about it or talking it over with a therapist.
> If that therapist isn't familiar enough to be of help
>about it, then seek out someone else.
>
>I wish you and everyone else the best.
>Deb

thanks deb!! i'm glad to know it worked for you though--gives me a little more hope/

=)~jane~

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Re: cognitive behavioral therapy...	Deb	20:38:48 09/16/04 Thu
Re: cognitive behavioral therapy... -- bittersweet, 20:42:28 09/16/04 Thu Re: cognitive behavioral therapy... -- Deb, 20:53:25 09/16/04 Thu