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The Perfect Candidate for Therapist in Chief
What Oprah chiefly did was establish herself as a good listener, and, through interviews with authors, quick-cure physicians, exercise gurus and nutritionists, she became a broker of other people’s problems.
.. Oprah could have risen to her stratospheric renown only in a therapeutic age—an age in which repression is illness, confession the cure, with impulse satisfaction, self-esteem and personal happiness the paramount goals. If the triumphant therapeutic culture has a national therapist, Oprah Winfrey, surely, is it.
.. at a time when actual qualifications no longer seem to count heavily in presidential politics, her possible candidacy doesn’t seem in the least fantastic.
Hi, I’m Woebot|
I’m ready to listen, 24/7. No couches, no meds, no childhood stuff. Just strategies to improve your mood. And the occasional dorky joke.
A Stanford researcher is pioneering a dramatic shift in how we treat depression — and you can try her new tool right now
“A premise of CBT is it’s not the things that happen to us — it’s how we react to them,” Darcy said.
.. Woebot uses that methodology to point out areas where a person might be engaging in what’s called negative self-talk, which can mean they see the environment around them in a distorted way and feel bad about it.
.. For example, if a friend forgot about your birthday, you might tell Woebot something like, “No one ever remembers me,” or “I don’t have any real friends.” Woebot might respond by saying you’re engaging in a type of negative self-talk called all-or-nothing thinking, which is a distortion of reality. In reality, you do have friends, and people doremember you. One of those friends simply forgot your birthday.