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Is anyone familiar with cognitive behavior therapy?
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Members discussed their varied experiences with cognitive behavioral therapy for fibromyalgia, with several sharing that CBT helped them... Read more
@A MyFibroTeam Member Basically if you are feeling positive you have less adrenaline running around in your body. Too much adrenaline aggravates our pain. So pain decreases when we feel positive. It doesn't mean it is gone.
@A MyFibroTeam Member Yes. I've tried it in several therapy groups. And in one on one therapy. The way it works is you learn to change negative thinking patterns into positive thoughts. I did it mostly through working out the negative thoughts into positive thoughts on paper. They like to call it homework. In group or in sessions with your therapist you go over your homework and talk about it.
If you do the exercises every day it does work. And you start feeling better about yourself and your life. Thing is? It is work. I found that as long as I did the homework and kept at it i felt good. Once i stopped doing the work the old patterns of thinking returned.
I hope someday to get into another group. I like feeling good about myself. 🙄
I've been I counseling for several years and it has really helped me
I've had a similar experience as Marsha. I attended a group also. My sister is a CBT therapist (she doesn't treat me) and she says it is very successful but doesn't require long term counseling like some psychotherapies.
@MyFibroTeam users... I agree that overactive emotions upset the nervous system and pisses off the FIBRO. (oops, looks like I yelled that) but what about specifically for pain. I've read a pain psychologist is better for that. 🤔
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