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Cognitive-behavioral therapy.
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- Clinical Reference Systems
- Article date:
- May 24, 2006
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What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy helps you change how you feel by helping you change how you think and react. Just like a negative conversation with a friend can leave you feeling down, what you say to yourself affects how you feel. When you're not aware of what you're saying to yourself, thoughts can go around and around in your head and can lead to depression or anxiety. CBT helps you:
* Change your thoughts, beliefs, ideas, attitudes, assumptions, mental imagery, and what you pay attention to. This is the cognitive, or thinking, part of CBT.
* Face the challenges in your life calmly, and then take actions ...