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Long-term skills from MBCT
Participants are armed with knowledge regarding depression as an
illness, and are given additional tools to combat their depressive
symptoms as they arise. This form of therapy is often used in
conjunction with other therapies and treatments in order to facilitate
a complete and rapid progression to healing. Clients who use this
technique will often be able to revert to these methods in times of
distress or when they are faced with situations that cause them to lose
their sense of separation from their thoughts.

Mindful way through depression
Source:
http://www.beatingthebeast.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=24868

'Beating The Beast" is an Online Depression Support Community
What follows is “Darkages’ ‘ initial contribution made to the blog's
topic "Mindfulness and MBCT - a summary", which was started by
"Darkages" on February 3, 2009.
The following are the rough notes "Darkages" took while reading
through "the Mindful Way Through Depression", by Teasdale, Zinn,
and others.
The book describes Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, which is a
successful blend between mindfulness (aka Buddhist meditation
without the Buddhism bit) and CBT or Cognitive Behavioural
therapy. I say successful as two studies indicate that in people with
recurrent depression (3 episodes or mode), MBCT about halves the
probability of further relapse, e.g. from 70% to 35%.
Little disclaimer by “Darkages”: this is all copyright Teasdale et al.

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