Anyone tried Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?

Worked for me. I'm so much better now its unreal. Prior to that antidepressants helped.

Hmm. No not my experience of CBT. It should allow you to identify patterns of negative thought and counteract them leaving you feeling more secure and happier overall.

Its not a cure all but as CFS and depression are quite closely linked in many ways some people find it quite helpful. I certainly did.

For me, it was really really awful. Therapy can be very destructive, and you have to go into it with extreme caution. Many therapists, like many doctors, see things only one way, and if you don't conform to their world view they are downright contemptuous.

Its like adv ,looks so

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I had a few sessions of CBT and while it didn't really help the CFS itself, it did help the depression a little. It wasn't enough to stop drug therapy, though.

Agree with Bee and Maria, it truly depends where you are on the "illness" scale. Therapy is like undertaking exercise....in other words, do it with extreme caution. How in the world if one is really sick and basically trying to just get through the day can CBT be of any help anyway? Can CBT look after your kids? Do you groceries? Sit and hold your hand while you're in excruciating pain or fatigue? Of course I'm being smart but let's face it, CBT has been touted just like exercise and we know that it just does not work except make people sicker by putting the onus on them to get better (I've never met any more self-motivated folk than PWC's) and to try and "change the way you think about your illness" is downright criminal in my eyes.

Instead of CFS/FMS what if people suggested CBT for say....cancer patients or malaria patients..or just substitute any devastating disease in there. Yes, I do think that once one is past the "suffering" stage of CFS there might be some room for CBT or any other type of therapy which will help strengthen the patient so he/she can "move on" and accept their "new" ways of functioning if they've been sick too long. Now I've been too verbose and am out of room....thanks y'all for listening or should I say...reading!!

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