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...Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Mindfulness meditation do seek to change how we think and feel about our situation, but this does not mean that we can ignore the circumstances under which mental health problems develop in the first place. I can remember from my student days a popular Tee-shirt slogan, attributed to Kurt Cobain and still available, which went ‘Just...

...cognitive mechanisms to cope with adverse environments in which resources are scarce. These mechanisms include a range of simplifying and confidence-sustaining mental short cuts (heuristics) that help us to make quick decisions when pausing to undertake a full analysis would be unwise. While these ways of thinking are not the same as rigorous logic or formally rational...

...cognitive factors can also play a part in emotional disorders...Understanding depression and anxiety: 1.4 Cognition, appraisal and stress - Psychologists suggest that there are cognitive styles, or ways of thinking, that predispose people to stress and therefore the development of anxiety and depression. Selye’s concept of stress and the idea that ‘it is how you take...