Reduce Depression With Behavioral Activation: CBT & DBT Skills
Behavioral Activation is a CBT technique that helps us improve our mood by changing our behavior, and an example of opposite action, one of the emotion regulation dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills. If you’d like to support my channel, please see links below 👇
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About the Creator: Created by a Registered Psychotherapist with a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and over 25 years of experience in child, adolescent and adult mental health. These videos make evidence-based, empirically supported psychological concepts accessible through animation.
37 Comments
Good video. Thanks.
Well done, I’m very comfortable sharing these with my clientele. I’m certain they’ll be helpful
Thankyou!
im a psych doctor. These are really good, and im telling them to watch these. Concise and digestable. Thanks man
I’ve enjoyed watching these. Thank you
Great video! Which software do you use to make the animations?
Thank you. Great vudeo
If the individual is clinically depressed how can these techniques work? Depression can be a host of a lot of things…sadly, big pharma profits immensely from the suffering of others or better said, humanity’s suffering…
Very informative video
Ooh one girl, a classmate loves the smoothies from smoothie king. I had a few smoothies from there & fancy chocolate 🍫🖤
I will agree with this. Sometimes doing something feels better
This is a really good video and makes lots of important points. I know that behavioural activation is an effective way of managing my depression but I still find it difficult to put it into practice when my mood is at its lowest! I'll keep chipping away at it though and will keep coming back to this video for some encouragement.
Sir, you are really doing great job.
Thanks for making such videos. Keep it up.
Thank you for a clear, compassionate look at lack of motivation. Your suggestions excellent your explanations why we need to move ourselves even if just a small bit. This is an excellent video!
Very helpful. Definitely explains why I've been so down. Was sick, isolating, couldn't work & even after I got better I've been feeling like sleeping all day, not wanting to wake up. Haven't wanted to do anything at all. Just sad. Kinda scary. Thanks for the video.
I have been doing the achievement and enjoyable activities on most days for about 2 weeks now. My moods have uplifted alot. I would highly recommend this. At the moment I am doing 2 achievement activities and 1 enjoyable a day and so far feel much better. Not major tasks but little things that are not too overwhelming for me and slowly I am building up. Key i find is to make it easy enough to do,even if you do something for 5 or 10 minutes to start off. Thankyou. Great video and very effective.
Thanks!
Been in therapy for 14 years. The work I've done has taught me so much about myself, but I've come to a place where I must now walk the road on my own. Your videos, with your calm, wise, compassionate voice, are giving me the skills I need to do so. The steps are doable and I'm actually able to move through my day. Subscribed and follow your videos. Thank you so much
God bless you 🙏
This sounds like my classmate can't mention her name due to confidential information
Thank you – I appreciate your help. It’s very hard to get myself going. Miss my grandchildren who live 1200 miles away.
Thank you so much for all this free information. It means more than you know.
I can't get the documents to download, it says to check internet but the connection is totally fine. Thanks.
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love youre – short video cartoons – they are so relevant and helped to understand. the process of depression clearly, thank you. Youre voice is so peaceful and brings clam in the tourment of negativities feelings and behaviors I can found my self. It open new path and give peance. Thak you
Thank you so much for your videos, watching it makes more sense to me ❤May God bless you and others through you 🙏🏽
Million dollar advice
I wish i found these videos when i was younger they are very valuable thank you
I chuckled at the unicorn and rainbow
This is amazing
If you go down a more spiritual path, you find out there really is no purpose in doing anything else. Nothing has any inherent meaning. It sounds dark, but it's actually the most beautiful aspect of life. Everything just is. Language dumbs everything down, which sounds like a paradox cause I'm using language to get my point across, but everything is. Why do anything? For the sake of doing it. Existence is truly abstract art that cannot truly be defined by the analytical mind. We are the universe experiencing and learning itself. The best medicine was learning who I am. "Who are you?" I am…
At 5:27 you said do-do. That is all
Thanks, i started an exercise routine walking to the park and waok 1 lap before heading back. I thrn increased it to 2 laps a couple of days later but my body got so tired and fatigued. Just wondeing whether i should push on regardless? Thanks, your videos are so helpful.
Thank you for trying to help 💚
What do people with high functioning depression do then? They seem to do all these things already and are still depressed..
I try my best to activate myself but it does not work for me like 80% of the time :/
Thankyou 😊
Thanks for sharing. We developed a novel breathing protocol to reduce anxiety, stress and depression in 10 minutes per day, and this video is a good complement for that. Blessings from Brazil 🇧🇷🇦🇷🙏
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