Does Cognitive behavioral therapy really work?!


Question: Does Cognitive behavioral therapy really work!?
I have tried conventional "talk therapy" and from what I have heard and read!.!. seems that cognitive therapy works well for people like me who suffer from extreme anxiety and OCD!. Anyone out there who knows about this type of therapy and if it works!?
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Answers:
I have cognitive behavioral therapy
Took me about a year to get my anxiety and OCD under control
So yes it does :)
The hard part, which is up to you alone, is to maintain the control!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

cognitive behavioral therapy works quite well on a number of disorders, Cognitive behavioral therapy (or cognitive behavior therapy, CBT) is a psychotherapeutic approach that aims to influence problematic and dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure!. CBT can be seen as an umbrella term for therapies that share a theoretical basis in behavioristic learning theory and cognitive psychology, and that use methods of change derived from these theories!.[1]!.

CBT treatments have received empirical support for efficient treatment of a variety of clinical and non-clinical problems, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse disorders, and psychotic disorders!.[2] It is often brief and time-limited!. It is used in individual therapy as well as group settings, and the techniques are also commonly adapted for self-help applications!. Some CBT therapies are more oriented towards predominately cognitive interventions while some are more behaviorally oriented!. In cognitive oriented therapies, the objective is typically to identify and monitor thoughts, assumptions, beliefs and behaviors that are related and accompanied to debilitating negative emotions and to identify those which are dysfunctional, inaccurate, or simply unhelpful!. This is done in an effort to replace or transcend them with more realistic and useful ones!.

CBT was primarily developed through a merging of behavior therapy with cognitive therapy!. While rooted in rather different theories, these two traditions found common ground in focusing on the "here and now" and symptom removal[3]!. Many CBT treatment programs for specific disorders have been developed and evaluated for efficacy and effectiveness; the health-care trend of evidence-based treatment, where specific treatments for specific symptom-based diagnoses are recommended, has favored CBT over other approaches such as psychodynamic treatments[4]!. In the United Kingdom, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommends CBT as the treatment of choice for a number of mental health difficulties, including post-traumatic stress disorder, OCD, bulimia nervosa and clinical depression!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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