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On the Other Side of Fear

by John Folk-Williams 22 Comments

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Fear has a way of setting boundaries that can’t be crossed. If you do cross them, you know you’ll pay a price – a pain or terror you can’t endure. The boundary is protection. Inside it, you’re safe. I think of the anxiety I feel when moving through depression as the warning sign. You’re getting […]

Filed Under: Psychotherapy, Self-Help Tagged With: boundaries, cognitive behavioral therapy, depression, fear, memory, OCD

Martin Seligman’s Approach to Cognitive Therapy

by John Folk-Williams 2 Comments

Many people with depression believe that nothing good will ever happen for them. The norm is failure and disappointment, the exception is success, and when something good does happen, it doesn’t count. This is just the sort of inner belief and self-talk that cognitive therapy addresses, and one of its leading advocates is Martin Seligman. […]

Filed Under: Depression Treatments Tagged With: cognitive behavioral therapy, optimism

Coping with Stress in Depression

by John Folk-Williams 1 Comment

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What’s the best way for coping with stress? Sometimes, when I’m starting to feel overwhelmed, it’s easy to forget everything I’ve ever learned and every skill I’ve ever mastered to stay sane. So then I have to retrace my steps and go back to first principles. It’s like being a musician who practices scales every […]

Filed Under: Self-Help Tagged With: cognitive behavioral therapy, coping, psychological abuse, Shelley E. Taylor, stress

Starting on a Path toward Acceptance

by John Folk-Williams 13 Comments

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For some time I have been working with the idea of accepting depression rather than trying to fight it. That’s an approach to therapy based on mindfulness and an attempt to broaden the range of experience you can live with comfortably. Although I haven’t worked with a therapist trained in any of the acceptance and […]

Filed Under: Recovery, Self-Help Tagged With: acceptance, anxiety, avoidance, cognitive behavioral therapy, control

How Do We Change in Psychotherapy?

by John Folk-Williams 9 Comments

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The first session I ever had with a psychiatrist proved to me that I could achieve a real change through psychotherapy. While in college, I had been immobilized by panic attacks and was desperate to get help. I spent three hours with a psychiatrist deeply engaged in the confusing mass of experience I needed to […]

Filed Under: Healing, Psychotherapy Tagged With: avoidance, change, cognitive behavioral therapy, felt sense, focusing

How Well-Being Therapy Works

by John Folk-Williams 7 Comments

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The need for an innovative treatment like Well-Being Therapy hits you hard when you learn a bit about relapse. It happens – a lot. In fact, the majority of people who recover from depression will relapse in the months or perhaps years following the end of symptoms. Medications don’t prevent it, neither does cognitive behavioral […]

Filed Under: Depression Treatments, Psychotherapy Tagged With: cognitive behavioral therapy, relapse

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