Comments | casu_consulto: Mastery and Pleasure, Rhythm and Melody

casu_consulto

Mastery and Pleasure, Rhythm and Melody

Oct 05, 2006 17:34

Recently, in completing the essay comedy of errors, I've been reading a bit about Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and specifically, its application to depression. While I'm not depressed, studying CBT has shown me a couple of interesting things about my life ( Read more... )

introspection, procrastination, plans, uni

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justinant October 5 2006, 12:34:22 UTC

I do rather think you're right.

When I started working fulltime I was somewhat depressed and I used to take a lot of days off and have a lot of late days but as I worked myself better into the schedule I started to feel a lot better and in fact I struggled with keeping my mood up over weekends.
I think I find work pleasant because I'm good at it and even really big bosses who drive really expensive cars know that I'm good at it.

april_showers October 5 2006, 12:37:22 UTC

Lighterlife (my weird diet programme) has CBT as its main component- they take you away from food so that they can do CBT with you, make you evaluate yourself and your actions and find ways of changing your behaviour- treating yourself etc without using food.

It's about recognising why you behave in a certain way and choosing to behave in a different way. It's good stuff :)

xx

casu_consulto October 9 2006, 02:56:07 UTC

Yeah I read a bit about Lighterlife when you posted about it. It seems interesting and sounds like a good approach. I'm always wary about the "take you away from food" idea because so many diets just get you to goal weight and then you're on your own - so I hope they do a good job of the "applying it to real food" thing!

whirlygig October 5 2006, 13:10:11 UTC

This is an awesome entry. Go you big red fire engine!

casu_consulto October 9 2006, 02:50:48 UTC

Heee! Thank you. :-)

anonymous October 21 2006, 17:10:20 UTC

I felt very lucky when I went to have driving lessons because the steering part wasn't a problem. I had done lots of steering since the age of 4 when I would drive the tractor or car sitting on Dad's lap in a paddock or along a dirt road. So when I started driving I was confident enough that I wouldn't run into things. When people pressure you by beeping though it can be difficult because you get distracted. The best advice I received was from my Dad who said "Just treat everyone else on the road as if they are an idiot." It is amazingly true ( ... )

casu_consulto October 24 2006, 01:17:38 UTC

the dishes aren't done or whatever so I won't let myself do what I want to do

Nope, I sure can't think of anyone else who does that!!! I'm a lot like that with uni work - if I haven't done the stuff I need to do, I won't let myself do anything fun, and that's a problem because I get to feel very burnt-out and grumpy.

Because it's been on my mind, I've been talking about driving a bit with people I know. Your Mum commented on what sensible drivers you and your brothers were when you were growing up. I refrained from telling her what you told me when I was twelve, that you took the car up to 160kph just to see how fast it would go. :-)

Thanks for the comment, by the way! It's nice to have visitors.