Dear evipax:

Getting on the waiting list for CBT is a good idea. In the meantime, you can introduce yourself to CBT. There is a book that introduced me to the concept, it was: “Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies.” written maybe by a British author (from the spelling). After I read parts of the book and did the work suggested there, a year or so later, when I searched for a therapist, I googled CBT therapist and attended my first therapy with a competent, empathetic and very hard working therapist whose specialty is CBT.

The concept is to pay attention to your thoughts, often they are automatic and you are not aware of the words, but sometimes you do.. and the thoughts are associated with feelings. There is so much distorted thinking going on that when you correct it, when you fit your thinking to reality, the feelings associated change.

I call CBT work: making my brain congruent with reality.

anita