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[fera_festiva]

Yay America! Knew you could do it. ♥ Thank you for doing the right thing. And I know there's an argument that non-Americans should just keep their noses out, but honestly, what the US does affects the rest of us in very real ways, so we do have a stake in it. So, yeah. Thanks

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[loveangelstar]

Ooh I've heard about the CBT. We did some of that in Psychology. It's mean to be very good and quite effective so I really hope it works for you. I'd be interested to hear the sort of things you do. I'm a behaviourist at heart even though I go for Freudian because it's piss easy - erm he pushed kids over in the playground because he was in love with his mother and had to vent his anger at not having her and his jealousy at his father by being mean to others LMAO. The best thing is you can't ever fucking disprove that shit

[fera_festiva]

Ack, not Freud! Gotta say, I find it a little scary that there are still people using psychoanalytic therapies when they don't bloody work. Good for the lulz, though. :D

But yeah, there's a lot of evidence, both theoretical and practical, for CBT, especially for treatment of anxiety and mood disorders together (LOL, that one clinical course I did is all coming flooding back!). So far it's been good, although I have been given some homework to do, which seems remarkably unfair. :D

I haven't watched Corrie for ages but that line made me LOL IRL. I wish I could get proper TV reception, then I could get on watching trashy shows again.

[bitbitbot]

hi there- you just friended me and i'm here to say that's more than okay (have friended you back) and also that i'm ditto going through CBT (for contamination-based OCD) and i wish you all the best with it. mine's a lot of touching things that terrify me and then touching things i care about, but i'm being thwarted a lot by my own brain, which spends most of these sessions frantically reasoning around what i'm doing instead of confronting them directly like it's supposed to. slippery thing, the brain.

[fera_festiva]

Heya. :) It's really nice to hear from you and to speak with someone else who's going through this too (although I count myself lucky I've not had to deal with anything as debilitating as OCD - I don't envy you at all). And I wish you the best of luck with it in return.

frantically reasoning around what i'm doing

That sounds familiar. :-/ One of the things I like about CBT, in theory, is the way it uses objective evidence. On the other hand, I've had many years of practice in convincing myself of the worst in the most empirical way possible...