Good, I especially like your first cited meta analysis: “CBT appears to be as effective as pharmacotherapies at the short term, but more effective at the longer term” (I have nothing against the meds). I view it this way: modern CBT is actually vacuuming all the working approaches. CBT is something that you can use anywhere - it’s mostly a tool to notice and rewrite your unhelpful thoughts. The goal of the best approach is to eventually have no crutches - no need to have a permanent psychologist if you become one for yourself. Group therapies or approaches that are hard to use individually cannot give you that. I found CBT to be very easy to learn from their main book. Some people rave about meditation - I think they’ll eventually learn the basics of thought-rewriting from CBT and will rave about it even more)
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Good, I especially like your first cited meta analysis: “CBT appears to be as effective as pharmacotherapies at the short term, but more effective at the longer term” (I have nothing against the meds). I view it this way: modern CBT is actually vacuuming all the working approaches. CBT is something that you can use anywhere - it’s mostly a tool to notice and rewrite your unhelpful thoughts. The goal of the best approach is to eventually have no crutches - no need to have a permanent psychologist if you become one for yourself. Group therapies or approaches that are hard to use individually cannot give you that. I found CBT to be very easy to learn from their main book. Some people rave about meditation - I think they’ll eventually learn the basics of thought-rewriting from CBT and will rave about it even more)