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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CBT can help make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down into smaller parts. This makes it easier to see how they are connected and how they affect you. It states that an event or experience impacts you and triggers a response involving your beliefs, attitudes, expectations and ërulesí . This leads to consequences in your behaviour both outward and inward ( emotionally) which in turn cause feelings and physical sensations.


The thinking part of you (cognition), behaviours, emotions and your physical responses are all connected. Thus, how you think about a problem can affect how you feel physically and emotionally. It can also alter what you do about it ( action/response). There are helpful and unhelpful ways of reacting to most situations, depending on how you think about them. CBT helps to make you more aware of your thoughts that are unhelpful, change the way you think, and change your behavior.


CBT can help to break the vicious circle of altered thinking, feelings and behaviour. When you see the parts of the sequence clearly, you can change them - and so change the way you feel. CBT aims to get you to a point where you can "do it yourself", and work out your own ways of tackling problems.

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