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Do You Talk to Yourself Like a Friend?
The double standard technique is based on just making the decision to talk to yourself in the same compassionate and loving way you would talk to a dear friend. When I was in Philadelphia we had a big cognitive therapy program. We put thousands of people through this group Cognitive therapy program. One woman who'd been hospitalized for depression thought she was a worthless person because she'd been hospitalized, says Dr. David Perry. She did it and her depression snap just disappeared just in the snap of the finger.