Cognitive-Behavioral Articles

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• A Special New Year’s Resolution for Procrastinators
  Procrastinators rejoice! The coming of the New Year is a fantastic opportunity for you to energize yourself toward achieving ...
• Are You SAD This Winter? Coping with Seasonal Affective Disorder
  Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) goes beyond the winter blues. It goes beyond feeling tired or sad or ...
• Is Using Technology To Treat OCD a Good Idea?
  For people who are suffering for any reason, the Internet can offer ready-made support. Those with OCD, for ...
• Social Anxiety Disorder Treatment
  Social Anxiety Disorder -- also known as social phobia -- is commonly treated by either psychotherapy or certain types of psychiatric medications. ...
• Should You Consider Alternative Treatments for Anxiety Disorders?
  Anxiety disorders are one of the most common psychiatric disorders. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), ...
• The First Line of Treatment for Insomnia That’ll Surprise You
  Whenever most people have serious trouble sleeping, they automatically reach for a sleeping aid, whether that’s ...
• 9 Ways to Make the Most Out of Therapy
  Therapy can be tricky. Before even walking in the door for ...
• 10 Things You Should Know About Compulsive Hoarding
  Many people might claim that, at least at one point in their lives, they could be classified as a "pack rat" or a ...
• Challenging Our Cognitive Distortions and Creating Positive Outlooks
  In this time of mounting economic issues, financial burdens, and the stress of everyday life many of us find ...
• How to Halt and Minimize Panic Attacks
  Experiencing a panic attack can be scary. While panic attacks vary among individuals, attacks tend to ...
• Answer Your Irrational Thoughts
  Irrational thoughts are at the core of understanding your mental illness, according to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). CBT's theory is that common mental health issues like ...
• What’s the Difference Between CBT and DBT?
  Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most commonly practiced forms of psychotherapy today. It's focus is on helping people learn how ...
• 14 Strategies for Sleeping Better
  For you the idea of sleeping well might be as far-fetched as a unicorn sighting. And in our productivity-driven society, sleep is usually the first thing ...
• The Boy Who Finally Stopped Washing: OCD From Both Sides of the Couch
  John B. is a therapist who both suffers from and treats OCD.  In this memoir, he describes what it’s like to live with OCD, and, in general terms, the treatments that helped him and his ...
• Replacing Your Negative Thoughts
  Negative thought replacement is a method for reducing the amount of depressive thoughts in a person's mind. In the first article of this series, ...
• Depression and Letting Go of Negative Thoughts
  When negative thoughts hit your brain, it's tempting to struggle with them and try to shove a more positive thought in there. ...
• Becoming Aware of Your Depressive Thoughts
  When you are in a really down mood, the negative thoughts just keep firing one after another. No matter what happens, these ...
• Understanding Different Approaches to Psychotherapy
  There are many different approaches to psychotherapy. Use of one method or another depends on the psychologist's or therapist's training, style and personality. Some psychologists use one approach with all patients; others are eclectic, and ...
• The Relationship Between Mental and Physical Health
  People with depression often have worse physical health, as well as worse self-perceived health, than those without depression. Depression and other physical health conditions have separate but additive effects on well-being. For example, the combination ...
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult Asperger Syndrome
  One of the more humbling things about being a senior therapist is realizing the cases where we missed it because we didn't have adequate training at the time or because the disorder hadn't been adequately ...
• 10 Reasons You Can’t Say How You Feel
  Not everyone finds expressing their feelings easy or having it come naturally. While the stereotype is that men have the hardest time expressing their emotions, everyone at one time or another in their life may ...
• Overcoming Fears, Phobias and Panic Attacks
  There are many ways that a therapist might work with someone to help them overcome their fears, a phobia (like being afraid of snakes) or having a panic attack (where a person feels their heart ...
• Fixing Cognitive Distortions
  Cognitive distortions have a way of playing havoc with our lives. If we let them. This kind of "stinkin' thinkin'" can be "undone," but it takes effort and lots of practice -- every day. ...
• 15 Common Cognitive Distortions
  What's a cognitive distortion and why do so many people have them? Cognitive distortions are simply ways that our mind convinces us of ...
• Living with an Anxiety Disorder
  Learning that you have an anxiety disorder may bring relief (finally having a name for your struggles), more questions (why me?) and more worry (not knowing what to do next). The good news is that ...