| Using the cognitive model to help relieve anxiety and | | | | who talked about the problem aloud reported a |
| stress is important, which means in a nutshell that | | | | significantly higher improvement of their problem. |
| how you perceive things is how they are. It is largely | | | | The process of therapy is just being able to verbalize |
| based on the belief that we get our emotions from | | | | what is going on with somebody who will not try and |
| our thoughts, and from our own self-talk. Cognitive | | | | fix it, judge them or worry about it with them. That |
| therapy is about recognizing what is negative self-talk | | | | in itself can relieve anxiety and stress. |
| and belief, and beginning to challenge those beliefs. | | | | Therapy and Medication |
| However, a lot of time, therapy helps with anxiety | | | | What we know also is that severe emotional |
| and stress by the process of someone being able to | | | | disorders statistically get better with a combination of |
| talk through what is causing you the anxiety and | | | | therapy and medication. That is almost a whole |
| stress in the first place with somebody who is | | | | separate issue. Scientifically, we have learned that |
| completely objective and, of course, nonjudgmental. | | | | there is a chemical change in the brain when |
| Talking About Problems | | | | someone has emotional disorders. |
| A study was done with college students experiencing | | | | Psychiatric medicine is designed specifically to stabilize |
| a problem. Two groups of students wrote a letter | | | | or fix those brain chemicals. When we are fixing the |
| about the problem. One group read the letter to an | | | | brain chemistry and making some thought changes, |
| objective stranger - not a therapist but just another | | | | that gives us a more holistic approach to treating the |
| human being. It was discovered that the students | | | | emotional disorders. |