There are different approaches to therapy and you need to know this because if you go to therapy you want to know which approach your therapist is using. You can choose because you have the up front knowledge you got here.

Psychotherapy:

This is the most famous kind of therapy we have heard of where a person goes in, lays down on a couch or sits in an easy chair, and talks about his mother. It's probably the worst way to treat depression.

Sigmund Freud started this idea which said that behavior today is caused by our childhood conflicts. Before a person can get better, he or she must solve the riddle of why he did things as a child. Insight must be achieved. You have to know exactly why you got depressed before you get any better. The results of this type therapy have not been very effective. You can work and work and find out why you do the things you do but if you don't change your behavior, no good results happen. You are talking about the past and trying to analyze things that happened maybe forty years ago. The therapist typically sits there and tells you nothing, wanting you to come to your own conclusions. This therapy can go on forever, or as long as you have the money to afford it. Few insurance companies are going to foot the bill for this drawn out therapy. Only someone like Woody Allen can afford to keep it going.

Behavioral Therapy:

In this type of therapy the only thing you will be talking about is your behavior, what you did. The basis of this therapy is that you are feeling depression because of what you did. This therapist won't be going into your past and asking about your parents or your birth order. This therapist wants to hear what is happening and then will work with you to change your behavior and do it now. It works very well for many people.

Cognitive Therapy:

This therapy has as it's belief that all emotion comes from thoughts. The basis for this therapy is for you to interrupt your thoughts, ask if they are really good and true, and discard them if they are not. This therapy says that you have to review the way you typically think. Then you ask yourself if this thinking is based on good sound information.

If you decide it is not, you need to change your way of thinking. It is a good therapy for someone who likes to spend a lot of time thinking about and analyzing their thoughts. For others it's way too complicated.

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