DaasYochid:
I’m sorry if I was unclear when I said “that’s exactly what I wrote about…” I was responding to an earlier post where you had asked if CBT can be used together with other forms of psychotherapy and I was trying to point out that my previous post, (which was actually intended to be a direct response to the OP and had nothing to do with all the discussions that followed…) talks about my personal experience where I have used CBT in conjunction with another form of therapy and found them both helpful (relieving the symptoms so you can deal with the cause… like tylenol…) You then asked me which one I would choose if I could only choose one, and again, I answered based on my personal experiences. I don’t know what it is that you and I are saying that are not the same… But I was not trying to side with any other poster’s perspectives, I was only sharing my own…
PBA:
“Nothing like a quick fix. Who wants to spend time and energy actually dealing with emotions, when you can just repress them!”
DaasYochid asked me a hypothetical question: IF you could only choose one, which would you choose? And I had to actually give that some thought before responding because bH, I DON’T have to choose between the two and DO address the root of the problem. And the reason why I would choose a “quick fix” in that hypothetical situation is because the emotional stress that I was dealing with was taking over my life and taking a toll on my day-to-day functioning.
I actually started talk therapy first, went for MANY weeks, and wasn’t managing between my weekly sessions… so I went for ONE session of CBT where I got a handle on my feelings and learned how to cope, and then the next few weeks of talk therapy were much more productive. I only went to see my CBT therapist a few more times after that, and only once in a while- not because his techniques weren’t helping me anymore, but because they had helped me so much that I decided to work on other issues that I was dealing with…
Of course this is just MY experience and different people may not find CBT to work as quickly for them or helpful at all! different strokes for different folks…