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Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.

Today I have a meeting with someone from the CMHA act team. Today is a day that I've been wanting to have for quite some time now... We are going to do art. Being a suffer of chronic depression I want in this blog to give you guys an idea of what it is that I go through some of the time. Depression is really something that begins in the mind and it's a mind disease. If you've ever been up late at night and couldn't go back to sleep, that feeling that you get that your mind and your thoughts are kind of like zooming  everywhere, is kind of what I go through on an every day scale or experience. A lot of people who suffer from chronic depression also suffer from insomnia. It doesn't mean that we don't sleep just means that our bodies are not well adjusted to our thought processes so sleep becomes very elusive and unrestful. I could sleep 10 hours one night and wake up feeling like I've only slept three, that's what it's like to have depression and to not be able to sleep.

The treatment that I am undergoing for depression, includes social therapy, and it used to include medication for which was replaced with natural sources which I don't take anymore and unfortunately I haven't been on any medications for depression,  because I haven't been feeling depressed for over the past two years. I have been relying on social therapy in order to overcome moods that have kept me isolated and alone most of the time. I wasn't really aware when I went off my antidepressants years ago however if I have that choice now, I would possibly consider other therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy, Or mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.  The former being a fairly new study at the University of  Oxford  under the new psychology of depression you can find a very informative series on iTunes University, I highly recommend listening to the series on iTunes under the new psychology of depression from Oxford University if you know anyone or you yourself are suffering from depression. Just search for psychology in iTunes and you should be able to find it. What this new therapy tries to do is it tries to get you to connect thought patterns that were wrong in the past and correct them with the right understanding of who you are now and who you used to be.

It's similar in Christianity when we talk about renewing our minds in the new psychology of depression it is a psychology or a way to look at things or thought patterns, that may have caused our initial depression which were then escalated by our minds becoming overly sensitive and ruminating on things for which at that particular times our minds were overwhelmed and couldn't solve. Part of the default method of our minds is problem-solving, when our minds encounter a problem which we don't know how to solve that can bring us to a point where we see no hope and eventually fall into moods which that can lead to a depressive state. It is not a one time event however the events in which we have a crisis in our own minds where we begin to ruminate on the problem instead of making a logical connection in how to solve that problem, which is impossible at the time, with the new psychology of depression tends to do is bring us back to those points in our past where we were thinking in a wrong way or thinking wrong thoughts more specifically and identifying those thoughts so that when something else comes up in our lives that may be a future cause of depression, we will immediately be able to recognize them and make the connection in our own minds with what is real and what is not real.

At this point in my therapy I will continue to take medications for my mental illness but for my depression and I may want to consider this new method of psychology which has been tested throughout the world in many areas of the world and I may want to investigate this further. This is Mike.

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