(May 28, 2015 at 12:56 pm)Saxmoof Wrote: I'm sceptical about therapy for the very depressed, like detailed above. CBT basically boils down to positive thinking, if you're as hopeless as I was that just feels pointless, and therapy can't work if you don't buy into it - it took me 6 years to feel like therapy was something that could help. And with severe social anxiety, you don't even want to leave the house let alone sit and talk to a stranger for an hour
(veteran of many years of CBT and DBT here)
While I wouldn't characterize CBT as just "positive thinking", you do raise some very good and interesting points. When one is embroiled in a serious episode of MI, oftentimes, one is simply unable to participate in therapy in any effective way - and certainly, if one doesn't buy into it, it isn't going to be effective.
I'm over 6 years into my current round of therapy, and I definitely was too sick to make any progress at all the first couple of years.
I wouldn't want to discourage anyone, though - in my case, it's ended up being worth it.
