Netdoctor: CBT: how cognitive behaviour therapy works

[John Mac]

https://www.netdoctor.co.uk/healthy...tive-therapy-and-cognitive-behaviour-therapy/

CBT is most commonly used to treat common mental health problems such as:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Social phobia
• Panic disorder
• Obsessive compulsive disorder
• Generalised anxiety disorder
• Phobias
• Health anxiety
• Post-traumatic stress disorder

CBT is also used in the treatment of bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, schizophrenia and psychosis, insomnia and alcohol misuse.

More recently, CBT has also been found effective in supporting people who are experiencing long-term health conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, irritable bowel syndrome and fibromyalgia.

My bolding

 

[Trish]

A superficial article that seems to be little more than a sales pitch for CBT.

 

[Invisible Woman]

My rule of thumb -the longer the list of things something is supposedly good for the less effective the treatment is likely to any for any of them.

Why not just say it's the secret to eternal life (or earnings for the therapist) and be done?

 

[Hutan]

It's interesting that the website has differentiated between 'treating' and 'supporting'.

CBT is most commonly used to treat common mental health problems such as:

• Depression

More recently, CBT has also been found effective in supporting people who are experiencing long-term health conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome

This is in line with the draft NICE ME/CFS guidelines I guess. Whether most people will appreciate the difference, I'm not sure.

Perhaps, the easiest route to getting this Netdoctor entry to be less harmful to people with ME/CFS is to get them to add other long term conditions to the list of diseases supposedly supported (but not treated) by CBT e.g. cancer, MS, Parkinsons.

 

[Hutan]

All treatments that are included under the umbrella term of CBT are evidence-based which means that they have been proven, in scientific studies, to be effective. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) therefore recommends CBT as the talking therapy of choice in the treatment of anxiety and depression and many other problems as there is now so much research available demonstrating it's effectiveness.

Ha