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Importance of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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Cognitive behavioral therapy involves a patient and a therapist working together to dissect the thought process of the patient in a way that they are able to change their negative and dysfunctional thoughts to more positive thoughts that enable them to live a normal life. Cognitive behavioral therapy can deal with problems like anxiety, insomnia, obsessive compulsive disorders just to mention but a few.

Its greatest benefit is that it allows the patient to change in their own terms. The therapist is only there to guide the patient on what to do. The patient is able to search within him or herself the triggers or the reason why they get anxiety attacks. They could have witnessed a scenario while they were still young that traumatized them. This could be the cause of anxiety attacks when they are faced with a situation almost close to what they experienced in their younger days. By attending therapy sessions, the BABCP therapist is able to guide them to conquer their fear and live any other normal person.

The therapy involves knowing the emotions and thoughts life of the patient. The patient is able to come to terms with their feelings. If they are all negative, then the patient can easily work through them to start thinking positively about their situations. Since the CBT session London are short term, by the end of the period, the patient is able to make positive choices by themselves because they are equipped to work through their emotions effectively.

The patient is able to change how they respond when faced by different situations. If a person first response to a trigger was to get angry or result to abusing drugs like alcohol, then they are able to respond more reasonably. The can reason with the situation and therefore make a sound action that is not destructive to them or to other people around them. Instead of resulting to negative things always, they are able to identify other beneficial things to do to deal with issues like cooking or other recreational things.

Finally the patient is able to co-exist with other people. In instances when they felt no body understood them, because of their problems, they are now able to live in peace with those around them because they are also able to harness their emotions. They can also extend help to other people going through the same difficulties they were going through. It gives them hope that all is not lost and they can also overcome.