What is cognitive-behavioral therapy-CBT?

What is cognitive-behavioral therapy-CBT?

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Different kinds of therapy use different modalities to create happiness, or to teach someone to create happiness, really. And the specific technique that I like best is called cognitive behavioral restructuring, where you recognize what thoughts run through your head at any given moment, that then generate feelings, that then invite you to then do certain behaviors, and that then reinforce the thoughts, the feelings, and the behaviors in a chain link. So that when you intervene, because you getting a negative thought, or you're generating negative feelings, or you're doing self-defeating or acting-out kinds of behaviors, you can intervene at any of those three points, change the cycle so that the chain link becomes positive instead of negative, and create happiness as a result of that adjustment.