007: M = Methods (Part 1) — You FEEL the Way You THINK

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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🗓️ 9 November 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The three basic principles of CBT:

Negative feelings, like depression, anxiety, and anger, do not result from what happens to us, but rather from our thoughts about what’s happening. In fact, our thoughts, or “cognitions,” create all of our emotions, positive and negative.
When you’re depressed or anxious, the negative thoughts that trigger your distress, like "I’m no good," or "Things will never change," are distorted or illogical. In fact, depression is the world’s oldest con.
When you change the way you THINK, you can change the way you feel.

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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 are going to talk about M equals method. This is like the fourth
0:51.9	factor in the team model. And I want to warn our listeners
0:59.4	here that you have like a whole slew of methods and we're definitely not going to present
1:05.4	all of them or even a substantial fraction of them today. But the subtitle for today's broadcast is, you know,
1:16.5	you can change the way you feel. And I think that people would be interested to hear about that.
1:23.5	So what could you tell us about the method aspect of the team model, David?
1:28.3	Well, one of the neat things of team therapy, and it was also strong in cognitive therapy,
1:35.3	is the idea that we use specific methods to help each patient change the way he or she is feeling,
1:41.3	and to make that happen rapidly if possible.
1:46.1	We want people to go from, say if they're depressed, to go from depression where you say,
1:51.7	oh, you know, what's the point in getting out of bed and feeling kind of worthless and
1:56.7	hopeless and discouraged?
1:58.8	I don't want my patients to feel less depressed.
2:01.5	I want them to be able to smash the depression completely.
2:05.6	So they say, hey, it's great to be alive.
2:08.6	I get up in the morning.
2:10.0	I've got a wonderful day to look forward to.
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