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what is cognitive behavior therapy?

Cognitive Behavior Therapy is an idea built on the assumption that your emotions are caused by your thoughts, in addition to your perception of the external influence.In other words, your behavior will be based upon your emotions, for example, if someone pointed a pistol at you, you will first think that if he did shoot then you are going to die which is perceived as a great danger and so you will feel afraid. So the cognitive behavior therapy concept implies that it's your thoughts that cause you to feel afraid and not the external influence that you've experienced.

what are the uses of cognitive behavior therapy?

CBT is one of the fastest methods you could use to change many behavioral patterns and unwanted emotions by simply changing your thoughts. Some of your thoughts/emotions/behaviors/deliberation can turn into a self reinforcing cycle that brings unwanted emotions into your life.For example, if you thought that you are a loser, and perceived this as something bad, most probably you won't approach people the same way that you would have used.If you didn't think you are a loser and you're approaching people that way, people may start to actually reject you. As a result, the belief of being
a loser gets reinforced in your anticipation of your own self and in people's behaviour.Per se, through both your thoughts and feelings and the external factors that influence you which are in this case: the people.

What you can do here is use CBT concepts to break this cycle, by either questioning your irrational belief of being a loser or by acting as if you are not one. Both attitudes will break the cycle of reinforcement of the irrational belief. You can use CBT to deal with many unwanted behaviors like anger, anxiety, fear, being self conscious and even depression.

Example for using CBT to get over a breakup

Some people fail to recover after a breakup just because of the irrational thoughts that come into their minds and sticks in thier anticipation by having a sceptical behaviour. Hence, they keep telling themselves that they will never be able to find someone like their old partner and they work on convincing themselves that he was the one. In my book How to get over anyone in few days I described how these thoughts can turn into emotions of depression and helplessness. These emotions in turn will turn into a behavior like being and acting broken.

In order to avoid all of these problems the root cause must be dealt with, the false sceptical beliefs that caused the thoughts which in turn caused such negative emotions, must be dealt with. If you learned how to deal with such false beliefs you wont have any problems getting over anyone. Check this article for more information on getting over false beliefs

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