CBT taught me to control my emotions through the conscious modification of negative thoughts when what I really needed was to have more insight into why I felt bad and understand that I’m distinct from my thoughts/feelings (and therefore it’s okay to experience negative ones)
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(I’m not interested in shielding myself from the extremes of my emotions, just in processing and understanding them in a healthy way)
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going through a bunch of “updated psychotherapy” books right now and just waiting for the pendulum to swing back towards freud again
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this is all subjective/anecdotal btw but I was a super sensitive/intense kid when I discovered CBT and found it incredibly effective (I’ve read probably 20+ books on it...) but now realize the ability to stop all your negative thoughts in their tracks is not without a cost
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chad donkey from shrek 2 Retweeted Mark ( 🧘 🧪 🧙♂️ 💩 ❤️)
Abstracting and sublimating emotions can be useful in times of crisis, but it can also cause you to ‘move past’ negative emotions without confronting the underlying shame, fear, frustration, etc. https://twitter.com/meditationstuff/status/1204439983299465217?s=21 …https://twitter.com/meditationstuff/status/1204439983299465217 …
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