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Re: A couple questions for Scott (SLS) » g_g_g_unit

Posted by SLS on January 5, 2012, at 4:27:55

In reply to Re: A couple questions for Scott (SLS) » SLS, posted by g_g_g_unit on January 5, 2012, at 4:03:36

Hi GGG.

> >I gained the most out of CBT once I recognized that >a depressed brain produces its own negative >messages that are basically involuntary.

> Sorry, I may be a little slow but I was just trying to grasp more clearly what you mean by this.
>
> By "negative messages" are you referring to thoughts of low self-worth etc.

Yes. Feelings of guilt, morbid or melancholic thoughts, persecution, negative thoughts that destroy self-esteem, etc.

> And that while they may feel congruent in the midst of depression, they're essentially distortions of reality?

You have a keen mind. Yes, I would call them distortions - cognitive distortions.


- Scott


Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.

- George Bernard Shaw

 

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