cognitive therapy + anti-depressants?

[georgiamay]

I didn't really know where else to put this, this was the only place that seemed appropriate.

Anyway, I had an appointment with a psychiatrist yesterday, and he said he's going to get me into congnitive therapy, and once that's started he wants to put me on sertraline.

I honestly don't know what that means. Has anyone else had cognitive therapy, and did it help? What sort of things does it cover? I didn't bother asking, I was more interested in staring at the radiator trying not to make eye contact with anyone while he told this to my parents.

And what's sertraline? What does it do?

I don't know much about this sort of thing :P

[Syvelocin]

Sertraline is basically like Zoloft or Lustral. I've personally been on Zoloft before. It's usually prescribed to treat depression, OCD, panic attacks, PTSD, and social anxiety disorder.

And cognitive therapy is just another type of psychotherapy like DBT and such. They forced me through it when I was in the hospital :P It's basically like teaching you to choose how you perceive things because "your behaviour comes from your emotions and your emotions come from your cognition" - what a counselor I worked with wired into my brain. So if you change your thoughts and how you perceive a situation, you change your emotions, and you might act differently on them.


Cognitive therapy seeks to help the patient overcome difficulties by identifying and changing dysfunctional thinking, behavior, and emotional responses. This involves helping patients develop skills for modifying beliefs, identifying distorted thinking, relating to others in different ways, and changing behaviors.Treatment is based on collaboration between patient and therapist and on testing beliefs. Therapy may consist of testing the assumptions which one makes and identifying how certain of one's usually-unquestioned thoughts are distorted, unrealistic and unhelpful. Once those thoughts have been challenged, one's feelings about the subject matter of those thoughts are more easily subject to change.

[DecemberFlower]

I've been on sertraline top dose it didn't do too much for me. Not speaking for everyone but it gave me weird dreams :what: