What is CBT?

Hey guys,

So it's Ruben here.

And I originally,

My post-grad was in CBT,

Cognitive behavioral therapy.

We're talking about traditional cognitive behavioral therapy.

I'm also an ACT therapist.

An ACT therapist has moved from the traditional CBT into what's called contextual CBT.

Now,

I don't want to get too heady about that because this is a little intro to CBT.

And if there was a little tagline for it,

You could say,

You're not seeing the world.

You're seeing your thoughts about the world.

And so the big idea here is that.

We are caught up.

In this world,

It's like we're wearing tinted sunglasses and we've forgot that they're there and everything can look.

Tinted right if this dark and gloomy sunglasses like gray color right then we are looking at the world from those so we assume that it is our reality So CBT means cognitive behavioral therapy.

And the first behavioral therapy,

The first wave was around 100 years ago.

And then the second wave,

Which is the traditional CBT,

Started in the 60s by Aaron Beck.

So the core insight.

Here for CBT is that it's not just the event that creates suffering It's the story that our minds tell us about the event.

So again,

An example here could be like your friend does.

Doesn't text you back right so they just don't text you back and your mind says something like what have i done wrong maybe they don't like me right and so we can spiral and the reality could well be that they were making dinner or caught up in something else,

Right?

We have these different thoughts about it.

So CBT says thought.

Are not facts.

That's often a thing that comes up,

Like thoughts are not facts,

Right?

And a large part of traditional CBT is working with thoughts to help us.

See how helpful they are.

And so CBT teaches you to be the lawyer,

So to speak,

Not the jury.

We don't just believe.

The witness we cross-examine it and so traditional cbt The question really for traditional CBT is about thoughts in terms of what is the actual evidence for this thought.

What is the evidence for it?

What's the evidence against it?

Am I catastrophizing?

Am I mind reading?

Am I thinking in black and white?

So traditional CBT,

Cognitive behavioural therapy,

I hope that's given you something to help you.

There's a lot of resources here on Insight Timer.

I hope you find something that suits you.

And thank you for being here and listening to this.

Take care and see you again soon.