What is CBT? | Making Sense of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) is one of the most common treatments for a range of mental health problems, from anxiety, depression, bipolar, OCD or schizophrenia.

This animation explains the basics and how you can decide whether it’s best for you or not.

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28 Comments

  1. CBT is based on a logical fallacy that Thoughts Control feelings. Neuroscience shows that the amygdala, ( the smoke alarm in the brain) sends signals via the sympathetic nervous system to create nervous panicky feelings, and sends signals to the neocortex to produce the negative thoughts. There is no direct link between the two. Cognitive re framing simply suppresses those feelings. What you actually need to do ( and Mindfulness Somatic Experiencing and Focusing Psychotherapy all do this ) is to activate the'noticing' part of the brain ( Hyppocampus ) which helps to reset the amygdala. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and others have pointed this out for many years. but the anti-science CBT people just ignore it.

  2. Funny how other therapies are trivialized by saying it's talking to a bearded man who analyses your dreams. CBT is good to use in addition to other therapy techniques I don't think it's good to downplay other methods in this video.

  3. Can CBT help me? I have no negative thoughts about myself, it’s just this unending anxiety over everything. I love myself, but have just started to feel fearful of everything, and fearing the fearful feelings.

  4. I am an avid #MentalHealthAwareness advocate and performer, and I love this so much. I travel the country trying to bring that awareness on stages, in classrooms, hospitals, and on my YouTube channel, so I get excited when I see other advocates. 💙❤

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