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CBT for Depression – Why Do I Feel This Way?

What is Depression and how is it maintained?    Most of us will experience periods of low mood, feelings of hopelessness, or a loss of interest or pleasure, often in response to difficult life events. We use the term Depression to describe when this persists, but is also accompanied by other symptoms, such as a […]

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CBT for Anxiety – some key principles

What is Anxiety? In the English language, we typically use the word Fear to describe our immediate emotional reaction to present danger or threat, whereas Anxiety tends to refer to the more persistent physiological and cognitive (or thinking) response associated with the anticipation of threat, particularly when this remains uncertain. Of course, as human beings,

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What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is actually quite difficult to define, as it can look very different when applied to different problems, for different individuals, by different therapists (or perhaps even computers, nowadays!). However, I think it is fair to say that the term refers to a family of talking therapies and approaches that are based

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