CBT/TEA forms work for anxieties

[tmays]

That link looks like they took it straight out of the Obitz book. It's a good overview of them but the examples in the book as well as the other exercises were helpful to me. Yes, a lot of the thoughts are repetitive when you start but you need to keep writing them and countering them and as you overcome them you are likely to uncover new and deeper thoughts that replace them on your road to recovery. Repetition is the key to replacing your old thinking habits with the new non anxiety causing ways of thinking.
Good luck!

Doing great thanks for asking. Nice advice in your post above. I hated how repetitive my thoughts were when i started but eventually they got deeper and more varied. The key was restructuring all of them to be more objective.

[bhamlaxy]

I need to get back on TEA forms. I did them once after reading the book. Was definitely interesting, but medication kicked in and it wasn't a priority. Now I'm getting slight anxiety and realize I need to do some real work on it.

[Beachgirl]

I need to get back on TEA forms. I did them once after reading the book. Was definitely interesting, but medication kicked in and it wasn't a priority. Now I'm getting slight anxiety and realize I need to do some real work on it.

This is a common problem with meds You start feeling a little better and you lose the motivation to change the bad thinking habits that are at the root of your anxiety. I think a lot of us have fallen into this trap (human nature?). The good thing is you realize that there's work to be done if you want lasting relief and can start down that path as soon as you are motivated to do so. I'm pretty sure you'll be glad you took that path when you are ready too

[tmays]

This is a common problem with meds You start feeling a little better and you lose the motivation to change the bad thinking habits that are at the root of your anxiety. I think a lot of us have fallen into this trap (human nature?). The good thing is you realize that there's work to be done if you want lasting relief and can start down that path as soon as you are motivated to do so. I'm pretty sure you'll be glad you took that path when you are ready too

bhamlaxy- I just want to back up what beachgirl said above. I hope you have been able to make the TEA forms part of your daily routine because that's the way I get the most out of them.

[Beachgirl]

bhamlaxy- I just want to back up what beachgirl said above. I hope you have been able to make the TEA forms part of your daily routine because that's the way I get the most out of them.

Thx Tmays.

I hope you are back doing your TEA forms again bhamlaxy? Let me know if I can help?

[trackstar]

I need to get back on TEA forms. I did them once after reading the book. Was definitely interesting, but medication kicked in and it wasn't a priority. Now I'm getting slight anxiety and realize I need to do some real work on it.

Just want to add my two cents in echoing what others here have already advised above. If you want to get off of meds for good you have do exercises like the TEA form to help restructure the way you think and react to things.

[surfacing]

I've used a lot of techniques for countering thoughts but there are just so many thoughts and feelings I am constantly having to try to address that it just feels hopeless! I have reams of paper and files that are the same sorts of feelings being rationally countered and addressed, but they just pop up again. Its Becoming increasingly difficult to identify any thought specifically that might be making me feel anxious or sad. Now that I am unemployed though I'll have the time to try to write things down more again and do exercises, so I'll give these a go.

[raggamuffin]

MoodGym.AU is another CBT related site which is free

Ed

[jon mike]

I suffered stupidly for 15 years with terrible general anxiety problems, obsessiveness, breathing fears, depression (due to anxiety) agrophobia, crazy crazy crazy thoughts, constant for years!
Went to see my doctor who got me CBT therapy, once a week for 12 weeks and I was fixed! Cannot recommend it enough. People seem to avoid it thinking that it sounds to simple for them but it works!

[trackstar]

I suffered stupidly for 15 years with terrible general anxiety problems, obsessiveness, breathing fears, depression (due to anxiety) agrophobia, crazy crazy crazy thoughts, constant for years!
Went to see my doctor who got me CBT therapy, once a week for 12 weeks and I was fixed! Cannot recommend it enough. People seem to avoid it thinking that it sounds to simple for them but it works!

Other than the agoraphobia very similar to what I experienced prior to CBT helping me turn my life around. We are on the same page as far as not being able to say enough about it. I think the reason people think it's too simple to work for them is because that is part of having anxiety and depression- thinking you are different and nothing will work for you. I know that was my initial reaction to CBT, but boy was I wrong! Keep spreading the word about CBT