How is cognitive therapy different from simply telling people to cheer up?
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Currently going through it. As far as I understand from the process is that the end goal isn’t to “cheer-up”. It is to understand why you are in the place you are in. Once you understand that and how/why certain things effect you the way they do you can start making behavioural changes.
For example, I am really negative of myself. That behaviour I didn’t know I had, I just thought I was who I was. Now I understand that is a behaviour I can start to look at why I am like that. I can also look at how to change that.
The end goal isn’t to cheer-up, that can be a effect of the process. The end goal is to understand yourself better and give in certain scenarios work on mindset.
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