How are you feeling today?

[woozywoo]

Cant see a way forward.

[doublep]

Wayhay forgot my tablets.

At work till 6, don't like taking them at night.

Also quit smoking Saturday so this will be entertaining.

[Sweetpea]

Not great today, quite anxious.  Have counselling at lunchtime, so maybe thats way.

Hope everyone else will have a good day.

S x

[Buttercup]

Not having a good day either.  Feeling anxious, jumpy and tearful but can't figure out why.
Hope the day gets better for everyone. xxx

[Sweetpea]

 &*( Buttercup.  Lets hope the day improves for both of us.

S x

[Zaf]

 &*( to you both

[Glen53]

Can I just ask a quick question ?

I have had an assessment and was told that CBT will not work for me because my problems are due to external issues (not sure what they mean) but have been referred for face to face counselling .

Why wont CBT work ?

I can only make an educated guess at this.

CBT tends to work on your moods and feelings and how to remove one or two links in a viscious chain that makes you feel depressed.

If the main cause of your low mood is something beyond your control (somebody making your life miserable or a repeating event that you cant change) then CBT will have little impact. It works at trying to change the way you think and see things and tries to teach you coping mechanisms so that you can alter how you cope with your feelings. If these feelings are being caused by a repeating external influence that cant be changed the therapy wont be as effective as talking to someone about the situation on a more regular basis like a councilor.

I think thats why, but again Im no proffesional.   

[Buttercup]

Thank you Shaz, lets hope so  &*(

Thank you Zaf xxx

[doublep]

Cbt seems to be working for me, I see my thoughts differently and can see that I'm the one turning things against me.

Although not all the time, depends on my mood. Lately I've not been too bad but I cracked over the weekend.

[smirfy21]

I have decided that I am going to go back to my first psychiatrist and ditch this idiot that I seem to have been referred to. I have another appointment with my GP this afternoon to talk about starting back on the meds which I desperately need to do so thats a good thing.

I don't know how he will take me telling him I am not going back to this shrink and will not be listening to any of his crack pot ideas and oppinions but whatever he says I will not be changing my mind any time soon that is for sure.
 
I seem to be finding myself becoming more and more angry and I am afraid that this anger is going to come out in the wrong place and at the wrong person so I am isolating myself from the world.

[Zaf]

Hope it goes well with your doctor smirfy, there really is no point seeing someone you csnt get on with &*(

[smirfy21]

thanks zaf yeah I just wish it hadn't taken me this long to realise how good my first psychiatrist was.

[Zaf]

With your first psychiatrist you had nothing to compare him/her with so it would have difficult to judge how good he/she was xx

[Sweetpea]

I feel an emotional wreck after my counselling session.  Had decided before I went that I was not going to go again, as I had got myself into such a state about going.  But now I know I need it.  Have gone into more detail in my journal.

S x

[Zaf]

&*(