🌿 THERAPY & MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT (EASY READ)

 

🧠 MAIN IDEA

👉 Different therapies help different people
👉 Therapies work on:

• Thoughts
• Feelings
• Behaviours

👉 Sometimes therapy is used with medication

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💬 IMPORTANT MESSAGE

👉 There is no one single therapy that works for everyone

👉 Support must be:

✔ Individual
✔ Flexible
✔ Person-centred

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🌈 COMMON THERAPIES (EASY READ)

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🧠 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

🌿 Helps with:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Phobias
• PTSD
• Eating disorders

🛠️ How it works:

✔ Changes negative thoughts
✔ Changes behaviour
✔ Helps link thoughts → feelings → actions

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🌿 Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

🌿 Helps with:

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Strong emotions
• Self-harm behaviours
• Eating disorders

🛠️ How it works:

✔ Teaches emotional control
✔ Teaches coping skills
✔ Helps manage distress

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🧠 Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)

Interpersonal Therapy

🌿 Helps with:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Relationship problems

🛠️ How it works:

✔ Focuses on relationships
✔ Improves communication
✔ Builds social support

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🌿 Exposure Therapy

🌿 Helps with:

• Anxiety
• OCD
• PTSD

🛠️ How it works:

✔ Slowly faces fears
✔ Reduces fear over time

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🧠 Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic Therapy

🌿 Helps with:

• Depression
• Anxiety

🛠️ How it works:

✔ Looks at past experiences
✔ Explores deep feelings
✔ Understands patterns

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🌿 Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

🌿 Helps with:

• Trauma
• PTSD

🛠️ How it works:

✔ Processes difficult memories
✔ Reduces emotional distress

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🌿 Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

🌿 Helps with:

• Depression
• Preventing relapse

🛠️ How it works:

✔ Focus on the present
✔ Reduces negative thinking

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🏠 SPECIAL TYPES OF SUPPORT

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👨‍👩‍👧 Family-Focused Therapy

🌿 Helps with:

• Bipolar Disorder
• Schizophrenia

🛠️ How it works:

✔ Involves family
✔ Improves understanding
✔ Builds support at home

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👥 Group Therapy

🌿 Helps with:

• Anxiety
• Addiction
• Social difficulties

🛠️ How it works:

✔ Shared experiences
✔ Peer support
✔ Learning from others

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📊 THERAPY + CONDITIONS (SIMPLE GUIDE)

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🌧️ Depression

Major Depressive Disorder

✔ CBT
✔ IPT
✔ Psychodynamic therapy
✔ MBCT

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🌈 Anxiety

Anxiety

✔ CBT
✔ Exposure therapy
✔ DBT

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🌧️ PTSD

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

✔ EMDR
✔ Trauma-focused CBT

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🌈 Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder

✔ CBT
✔ Family therapy
✔ Medication (often needed)

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🧩 Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

✔ DBT

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🧠 Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

✔ CBT
✔ Group therapy
✔ Medication
✔ Creative therapies (e.g. art therapy)

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⚖️ IMPORTANT IDEA

👉 Therapy works differently for each person

👉 Some people need:

✔ One therapy
✔ A mix of therapies
✔ Therapy + medication

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🌿 YOUR IMPORTANT TEACHING POINT

You said:

“CBT may not be strong enough for some people”

👉 This is correct

✔ Some conditions need:

• More structured therapy
• Emotional regulation therapy
• Long-term support

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💬 SUPPORT PRINCIPLES (VERY IMPORTANT)

🌟 Good support:

✔ Listens
✔ Does not judge
✔ Gives options
✔ Respects choice

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❌ Not good support:

❌ Forcing people
❌ Judging decisions
❌ Ignoring feelings

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🌿 FINAL EASY READ MESSAGE

👉 “Different people need different support
👉 Different therapies help different needs
👉 The right support is the one that works for the person”

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