How is cognitive therapy different from simply telling people to cheer up?
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My only complaint about cbt is that it challenges thoughts without identifying beliefs that cause them, and seems to take a pruning approach, rather than a pulling out by the roots approach, so you end up a little better manicured but you have to keep grooming it, instead of the bad belief just being removed and replaced with what’s true.
Not whats comfortable or useful to believe, but what is actually true
It tends to still allow people to cling to lies that do not serve them and instead only helps them manage the lies they believe so they show up in their external life less. But does nothing for the internal
They use platitudes and sayings that are sometimes close to the truth and soothing and temporarily helpful but that are ultimately lies and don’t allow the person to recognize and solve their problem, but actively prevents it, by presenting encouraging lies as truth
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