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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jun 12 10:07am | Replies (30)
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I am 54 and I am in trauma therapy and have been for 5+ years. CBT definitely helps, it is still not automatic that I change my thinking, but I am becoming more and more aware of my thoughts and working to recognize and change them. Never too old. You go!!! Stay in the moment. I practice trying to bring myself back to the present when I freak out over the future which I know nothing about.
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Good for you! A friend gave a book to me....The Power Of Now! and from it I keep telling myself..."Now is the only thing that is real" and over time I find I no longer give my mind permission to spend any time going over the past or fearing a future I have just made up.
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You are correct; it certainly is NOT easy. Too many years for me of seening the bad and sad aspects of life first and seldom noticing the positive. Not sure why that has always been my perspective.