006: Ask David — Identity Crisis; Finding a CBT Therapist; Love Me the Way I Am

Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy

David Burns, MD

Clinical, Therapy, Anxiety, Psychotherapy, Depression, Health & Fitness, Cognitive, Mentalhealth, Mental Health, Behavior, Education, Self-improvement, Psychology, Relationships, Addiction, Happiness, Personalgrowth

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🗓️ 6 November 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Responses to questions submitted by listeners:

What causes an “identity crisis?” And how do you treat it?
Why is it so hard to find a therapist trained in cognitive therapy?
In a relationship, should you change yourself in order to get along with someone?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Feeling Good podcast. I am your host, Fabrice Nye. And joining me here in the Murrieta Studios is the creator of the team model, Dr. David Burns.. Hi David. Hi, Fabrice. Dr. David
0:24.2	Burns has been a pioneer in the development of cognitive therapy, and he is the creator of the
0:29.6	new team therapy. He is the author of Feeling Good, which has sold over 5 million copies in the
0:35.3	United States, and has been translated into over 20 languages.
0:39.5	He is an emeritus adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry at the Stanford University School
0:45.2	of Medicine. So today we're going to have an episode that's a little bit different,
0:51.3	which we call Ask David. And we've received some listeners questions. And so David is going to
0:58.5	answer those questions on the blog, on the podcast. And our first question today is from Bryce.
1:07.3	And Bryce writes, I was curious if you would be willing to speak about the concept of identity crisis.
1:13.8	How can people in their mid-20s figure out who they are?
1:18.4	Granted, I know that identity can change over time, but is, is there anything concrete that someone can buy into?
1:25.4	It seems that at times I'm looking for answers in the wrong places,
1:29.6	or that I come by into the simplest explanation.
1:34.2	The most outlandish and tangentially unrelated solutions
1:37.7	seem to make the most sense, as the anxiety wants to feed itself.
1:41.8	It's like I'm addicted to the search.
1:44.1	There's a feeling that whatever is bothering me
1:46.4	is something more foreign and complex,
1:49.0	and that I'm reckoning with a foreign part of myself
1:51.3	that I was unaware of up to this point.
1:55.1	How can someone truly find themselves?
1:57.4	Do we typically know all the answers already,
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