Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression and Anxiety Cure: Retrain Your Brain with CBT Strategies for Overcoming Depression or Panic Attacks and Get Your Mental Health for Feeling Good Again

By Patty Morgan

Feeling completely lost in that vicious cycle of negative thoughts and feelings which hold you back? Feeling as your mind is the ultimate boss over your actions and you want it to be the other way without resorting to unhealthy choices?

If your answer to these questions is yes, you are in the right place. The truth is that feeling depressed or anxious due to certain disturbing life events and situations is completely normal. These emotions serve valuable purposes which protect us or make us act when there is some kind of threat or danger.

While feeling depressed and anxious for some short period of time is completely natural, these emotions when present over some extended period of time can definitely take over your life leading to extremely destructive both thinking and behavioral patterns and before you know it, you are drained within that negative, damaging and self-destructive cycle.

Depression and anxiety are mental health disorders or chronic diseases and just like every other disease they are manageable. One of the best ways for treating depression and anxiety symptoms naturally is provided by cognitive behavioral therapy which teaches struggling individuals how to challenge and change their cognitive distortions, how to take control over their minds, how to change their life perspective and finally how to embrace life to the fullest.

Inside You Will Discover:

• What is mental health?
• How to recognize mental health disorders early warning signs?
• What are the causes of mental health disorders and different risk factors?
• What is emotional health and why it matters?
• How what you feel affects your physical health?
• What is cognitive behavioral therapy and what it treats?
• Your CBT self-help guide.
• How to recognize and challenge your co>gnitive distortions.
• Different CBT strategies and methods for overcoming depression and anxiety symptoms.
• And much much more...

Get this book NOW, learn how to change your destructive thinking and behavioral patterns and build a healthier relationship with yourself!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patty Morgan
• Release date: Oct 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393921622

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Depression And Anxiety Cure

Retrain Your Brain With CBT Strategies For Overcoming Depression Or Panic Attacks And Get Your Mental Health For Feeling Good Again

By Patty Morgan

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One:  Mental Health

What Is Mental Health?

Recognizing Early Warning Signs

What Is A Mental Health Disorder?

Risk Factors

Causes Of Mental Health Disorders

How Is A Mental Health Disorder Diagnosed?

Mental Health Treatment

Complications And Prevention

Mental Health Stigma

Chapter Two:  Mental Health Disorders

Anxiety Disorders

Depression

Bipolar Disorder

Schizophrenia

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Eating Disorders

Personality Disorders

Dual Diagnosis

Anxiety, Depression And Other

MedicalConditions

Chapter Three:  Emotional Health

What Is Emotional Health?

The Characteristics Of Emotional Health

Emotional Health And Mental Illness

What Is Self-Awareness?

Emotional Well-Being

Factors Affecting Emotional Health

Emotional Wellbeing And Mental Health

Emotional And Mental Impact Of Stress

Depression, Anxiety And Stress

Mental Health Affecting Physical Health

Chapter Four:  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

What Is CBT?

CBT Main Goals

CBT Core Principles

How Does CBT Work?

The History Of CBT

What CBT Treats?

What Happens At CBT Sessions?

Types OF CBT

Components Of CBT

CBT For Depression And Anxiety

Chapter Five:  CBT Self-Help Guide

The Influence Of Negative Thoughts

Cognitive Distortions

Changing Perceptions And Distortions

Double Standard Method

Embracing Thinking In Grey Shades

Experimental Method

Survey And Semantic Method

Embracing Definitions And Re-Attributions

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cognitive Reconstructing

Exposure And Response Prevention

Relaxed Breathing And PMR

Restructuring Exaggerations

Last Words

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Introduction

If you are feeling completely lost about how to manage your emotions, especially those disturbing, unpleasant and painful emotions which strike in times of crisis, you are not the only one struggling.

The truth is that everyone, at some point in their life, struggles to keep their head straight when dealing with a very stressful event or situation.

Another truth is that pain is inevitable while suffering can be avoided depending on your emotional intelligence skills.

Howbeit, when you are dealing with anxiety and depression, avoiding suffering is much more difficult than when you have a good emotional intelligence basis to begin with.

Fortunately, there is much you can do on your own to stop your emotional pain, stop your intrusive thoughts from controlling your life and much more by simply embracing healthier behavioral and thinking patterns.

Another thing which is necessary on this journey is facing your fears or your personal demons face-to-face.

This is the only way you can prevail and finally uncover your inner peace which has been there the whole time but buried beneath your emotional struggles, your emotional pain, and your emotional suffering.

Throughout this book, you will explore how your emotions, both positive and negative, affect your physical and mental health state.

You will explore what the body and mind connection is and how your physical health affects your mental health state and vice versa.

In addition, you will explore different mental health issues, their symptoms, their causes and how to overcome them without resorting to unhealthy choices. Of course, sometimes medications are necessary and taking them when prescribed is advisable.

Nonetheless, in some cases, you can fight on your own without resorting to medications. In fact, your own efforts alongside medications can also bring much better results, the one you anticipated.

When it comes to treating emotional and mental suffering due to depression, anxiety or other mood disorders, the most successful and effective method is cognitive behavioral therapy or simply CBT.

This book brings simple, easy to follow, yet very effective cognitive behavioral therapy strategies for dealing with depression and anxiety symptoms, for overcoming worry, intrusive thoughts and painful emotions.

These techniques derived from CBT therapy solutions bring long-term solutions which have absolutely stood the rigorous tests of both science and time.

Before we get to CBT techniques and strategies to embrace, you will explore your mind on a more profound level. You will explore what makes your mind so fragile to intrusive, very unhelpful thoughts.

This is the very first step to take as understanding what is happening in your mind and how your emotions affect your overall health state is crucial for building a better, healthier relationship with yourself as well as with the world around you.

In favor of building a much better relationship with yourself without emotional pain and struggle, you need to build your own optimal life management during which you learn how to properly challenge those intrusive, painful thoughts to serve you better.

As you challenge emotions wandering through your mind, you get to break bad behavioral and thinking habits and finally you get to truly enjoy what life has to offer, you get to live your life to the fullest.

Due to the amazing benefits of cognitive behavioral therapy skills and strategies, it is safe to say that it is a great alternative treatment for much greater personal contentment and happiness.

Feeling anxious all the time, struggling with constant worry and intrusive thoughts, feeling frustrated about certain areas of your life and being angry at yourself and other people decreases the overall quality of your life.

If this applies to you, you are definitely in the right place. Intrusive emotions which seem to control your life can be prevented or at least can be challenged to seem less intense.

In spite of gaining your inner sense of balance and peace, you have to remove all of those harmful chemicals and ingredients which prevent you from living your life to the fullest. CBT is definitely one of the best ways to do that.

It teaches you how to remove all of those harmful, dangerous chemicals and compounds living within your mind in a completely healthy, medication-free way.

In reality, the approach uses the internal processes occurring within your mind and your own ability to make different associations in favor of unleashing powerful strengths you need to become the very best version of yourself.

That very best version of yourself which you are striving towards is able to live a stress-free life, is able to enjoy what life has to offer and is able to