Metacognitive therapy (MCT) is like keto for the mind

(Larsen) #1

I am sorry about this strange and unrelated post (and the bad English), I just thought I would share this with you. I recently read a book about Metacognitive therapy created by Adrian Wells. And the principles just reminded me so much of keto.

In short, it states that the brain will heal itself if we stop feeding it with crap thoughts, and the use of serotonin is just a treatment of symptoms, not the problem.

Unlike standard cognitive therapy, it states that we should not try to replace our bad thoughts, we need to train ourselves in making thoughts go and not brood about them. It is not the thoughts that make our life worse or give us a depression it is when we brood about them too long, overthinking. And we cannot heal overthinking by thinking more.

So in practice, we should train ourselves to limit the brooding of all the thoughts to maximum a couple of hours every day, and all the other times, just let them go.

Thoughts like will I lose my job, will I get sick, why am I so stressed, why can’t I seem to get friends and so on. Let them go, and think about them inside the hour or two you are allowed to brood. This way the brain will heal itself.

Again I am sorry about this completly unrelated post…

(Allie) #2

That’s how I live. Acknowledge and release.
Forgive everyone, forgive everything - not for them, but for you. Holding onto negativity and anger only hurts us more.

(Edith) #3

My dad is a very unhealthy individual and I truly believe many of his health problems are because he dwells on the past (negative parts of the past) and keeps grudges.

I made a choice long ago not to be like that.

Thanks for your post.

(Larsen) #4

Glad to hear you decided not to fall into that trap :heart:

(Omar) #5

I think women can do better in positive thinking.

(Larsen) #6

You cannot control your thoughts, they will pop up all the time. But you can decide if you want to go into the thoughts that make your feel bad. I am doing it now, restricting the time I think about my triggers, and it really a incredible feeling, my stress and anxiety is reversing. Give your brain a break, and it will start healing it self (actually psychically).

Keeping thinking all the time, even trying to think more positive about something hard. Is like keeping the insulin up all the time. You just adding to the problem.