Cognitive Principle Therapy

Treating depression

Depression=

4 brains out of alignment

DEPRESSION

Head Brain

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE FOUR BRAINS?Head Brain:

Negative rumination, resulting in a negative comparative

The negative thinking is made personal and not about behavior

Depression says “Don’t end your life- end your negative thinking.”

Process

Process

HEART BRAIN

The gut brain causes the heart brain to attach fear to one of the other negative principles.

Negative Principle plus fear equalsNegative ConcernFear to Paranoid fearAnger to RageCriticalness to RejectionAnxiousness to PanicConfusion to HopelessnessGuilt to Shame

GUT BRAIN

Negative rumination generates negative energy and a fight-flight response.

The negative- comparative- predictive loop causes ongoing fear and continues the fight-flight response and intuition, which is the way out, is lost.

GUT BRAIN

The ongoing hopeless feeling of the heart, combined with fear, changes the core self and the person looses their sense of self, which causes further loss of awareness and resilience.

There is loss of self-protection and boundaries to provide safety.

There is a loss of courage and the will to act to get out of depression

SPIRITUAL BRAIN

The constant rumination of the head-brain turned hope into thinking that things were hopeless

The heart brain feeling of hopelessness caused a further loss of control in the gut brain

SPIRITUAL BRAIN

Eventually, the depressed person was broken and their soul felt lost, unable to be recovered.

The attack on the person, rather than the behavior created resentment or contempt with the inability to forgive self and restore the soul

Depression is a very bad habit

Fear

DEPRESSION- WHAT NOT TO DO

Do not use talk therapy to go over the past.

Do not give the client goals which cause the client to feel they might not achieve them.

Do not let the client do nothing and avoid situations

CPT

DEPRESSION- WHAT TO DO

Spiritual brainGive the client hope, through awareness [ education that depression occurs through process, which can be reversed]Model hope to the depressed client

Head brainExplain the process that leads to depressionExplain how fear works when taken as a physical threat

Gut brainGive the exercise of emotional threat- physical threat [requires no decision making]

DEPRESSION- WHAT TO DO

Head brain- gut brainWho am I- nowWhat do I want?

- if influence, then fix the problem- if concern, then accept the situation- otherwise, let the subconscious brain take over

Who am I NOW?

Stop Thinking

STOP THINKING

Your subconscious mind works one million times faster than the conscious mind.

It can access all of your files, not only with ones you can remember.

It has a predictive mind, which can solve your problem, but not if you ruminate over the problem.

If you don’t have a pathway out of your depression then, pass it over to the subconscious to find the pathway.

No pathway

No thinking about “How”