How is cognitive therapy different from simply telling people to cheer up?
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“Cheer up” doesn’t do anything. It’s a command/request. It doesn’t alter your thought process, it doesn’t change whatever that’s making you sad.
Sadness isn’t something you relieve with a command/request. Sadness is a condition, a process to go through. Therapy teaches you what steps you take to think beyond your trauma/cause of sadness and to make tangible changes to make a difference over time, either by gradually fixing the cause or learning to accept it and moving on/forgetting by trying to immerse one self into new activities and interests.
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