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Diane Shillings's avatar

I’m so glad you’re writing as your essays are always so interesting. I appreciate your remarks about writing helps you improve your thinking and organize your thoughts. I use a type of narrative therapy for helping my clients with depression and anxiety which includes writing down their thoughts about a particular vexing situation. Once they’ve done that step they write down their emotions based on their thoughts. The next step is to go back to their thoughts list and identify the cognitive distortions and replace with what they know to be true. Finally write down the new emotions. The majority of the time this narrative therapy has dramatically improved my clients’ sense of wellbeing.

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Angela's avatar

It's WILD how badly I needed to read this right now. THANK YOU.

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