| Cognitive behavioral therapy is a psychotherapeutic | | | | focus and telling which voice inside their head is the |
| approach that is developed through the merging of | | | | one to trust and belief. |
| behavior therapy and cognitive therapy. Many CBT | | | | Secondly is the behavioral stage. It is the stage |
| treatment programs have been evaluated and | | | | where patients are taught to put together |
| endorsed for its effectiveness and many specific | | | | everything in their everyday, real-life situations. It is |
| treatments for symptoms-based diagnoses have | | | | bringing it to action of the beliefs taught in the |
| favored CBT over many other approaches. | | | | cognitive stage to prove that they can live through |
| In the United Kingdom, cognitive behavior therapy | | | | real-challenges in life. |
| has been recommended by the National Institute for | | | | The last stage is the emotional stage where it is a |
| Health and Clinical Excellence for the choice to treat | | | | relaxation strategy to bring the person to peace and |
| mental health problems including panic attacks, bulimia | | | | calmness. The goal is to achieve calmness because |
| nervosa, OCD, depression and chronic fatigue | | | | once a person becomes more peaceful and calm, it |
| syndrome. | | | | empowers them to overcome their anxieties and |
| CBT treatment concept in treating anxiety and panic | | | | fears. This approach is mean to give focus on the |
| attacks is through gradual exposure to the patient's | | | | positive points that includes healing, inner peace and |
| fear stimulus. Through the exposure to the stimulus, | | | | achieving healthiness. By focussing on the positive |
| patients can unlearn the conditioning. This approach is | | | | areas, it will push the negative influence away. |
| called the in vivo exposure. In a study, it has shown | | | | CBT is an effective tool that helps people to cure |
| that many patients who have received CBT | | | | from mental health problems such as anxiety and |
| treatment has very high success rate in curing from | | | | panic attacks. Patients can discover and alter |
| their anxiety disorder. | | | | distorted thoughts hat has caused them to have |
| The focus in CBT approach is on the thoughts and | | | | irrational fears which led them to panic attacks. |
| belief processes. It aims to help patients unlearn their | | | | CBT therapies are not something new but a whole |
| old beliefs and change their thinking habits to free | | | | different approach that has helped many especially |
| them from the rut they felt they are in. There are 3 | | | | those who suffers from panic attacks, anxiety, |
| stages in the CBT technique that are cognitive, | | | | depression and OCD. CBT programs are available |
| behavioral and emotional stages. | | | | online and can be purchased and easily used at home. |
| Cognitive stage emphasizes on the thoughts and | | | | It is a cost-effective option that offers the same |
| beliefs. Patients are taught methods like stopping | | | | quality as group-based CBT. |
| negative thinking, questioning their irrational fears, | | | | |