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Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Sally Kohn: I thought it would be that kind of baloney, telling people to cheer up and put on a happy face or think about yourself positively. Not only is never helpful to someone who's depressed, it's always kind of makes the situation worse because the person feels like they're being preached out or given advice. There's no empathy in that. It just irritate and the treatment methods are so radically, radically, different from that. The goal is certainly to change the negative thinking pattern, but doing it through telling someone to cheer up or think positively, that's just, you know, it wasn't in the extreme and totally ineffective. And that's definitely not cognitive
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