Response to this here, a ‘review’ of Beating the Blues by Tim Lott on The Guardian webiste.
As a past user of Beating the Blues, I was quite interested to read this article. As explained in the article, Beating the Blues is a computerised CBT programme used by the NHS, amongst others, to, in my own [...]
Posts Tagged ‘CBT’
Beating the Blues- did I give it a fair chance?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beating the blues, CBT on May 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Shut up brain, just shut up, shut up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CBT, counselling, depression, therapist, therapy on May 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There’s something attractive about tying things tightly around one’s neck. That’s the most honest I’ve been all week, and probably the most honest I will be.
I can’t tell anyone this, and I’m well on the way to people thinking I’m okay; not enough people know me well enough to know that when I say I’m [...]
Making the right choices
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CBT, depression on March 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Today, I feel, has brought progress in terms of my treatment. I saw CBT/MHW lady, who had read my Doctors’ notes from last week, taken it on board and decided that I probably do need more support. That’s great, but it’s going to be to CMHT, not something I *really* wanted. I mean more support [...]
The buffet
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CBT, counselling, MHW, university on February 25, 2009 | 10 Comments »
As assessment for therapy is like a buffet for the therapist: The plates are the client, and they pick and choose what they wish, as they wish. By this I mean that all the plates are areas of your life, so for example today my therapist was talking about the 5 main causes of depression: [...]
She’s all I hate and more
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CBT on February 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Okay, so maybe hate is a bit of a strong word. I hate her patronising voice, her pained expression when she’s waiting for an answer to my question, her teeth, her stuttering and slow speech. I’m all for equal opportunities and all, but isn’t this taking the biscuit? I don’t understand why the second [...]
I’m not eatingly disordered, just a bit screwed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CBT, citalopram, counselling, eating, fluoxetine, university on November 20, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Well, I guess the good news is that I’m off the fluoxetine and will soon (as in tomorrow) be starting to take my new friend, tally. I just have to actually go and collect him from somewhere. It was a difficult task to persuade my doctor to take me off it, instead of upping the [...]
“university is what you make of it”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beating the blues, birmingham, CBT, counselling, mental health, that place in town, university on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This phrase is appearing a lot these days: university prospectuses, videos and posters. It may inspire some, but for others (ie me), it brings a sense of doom, gloom and sadness. I say this because I’m trying to make something positive come out of this: I’ve joined societies; socialise with others and try to show [...]
One year on: What’s Changed?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CBT, eating, phobia, self harm, university on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think this is fairly appropriate giving that this weekend I’m moving cities and I feel I need to tie up some loose ends.
A year ago, I had a really strange phobia that’d got worse from it’s normally dormant levels which was of cassette tape. I think I wrote about this already, about how it [...]
My fear of tomorrow
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CBT, counselling, doctors, help, moods, suicide on September 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Why?
Read on, dear reader…
