Mood Gym

Sundae · 12-28-2006, 01:46 PM

Actually it was a GP I work with, who suggested it as a second prong approach. The criteria is a motivated and computer literate patient, which means I fit the bill.

Current NHS guidelines promote CBT as the psychological treatment of choice, and CCBT (with the extra C being Computerised) was shown to be effective in a recent trial. The official programme is called "Beating the Blues" which includes a 15 minute video and a brief chat with a counsellor or pyschology assistant at the end of each 1 hour session on a practice computer (eight sessions in total). This costs the PCT £400 and isn't available at my practice.

Mood Gym I can do in my own time, at my own pace, and I should get the same out of it as attending a similar programme at the practice, i.e. as much as I'm prepared to put in.

Back in the Spring, when I was having trouble leaving my sofa even to go to the toilet, I was offered psychiatric help. The deal was that if there was no improvement two weeks after they upped my dose of Paroxetine (Fluoxetine had been tried already and it sent me loopy) then I would be referred. Luckily -I think -it didn't come to that.

12-28-2006, 01:46 PM	#12
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Actually it was a GP I work with, who suggested it as a second prong approach. The criteria is a motivated and computer literate patient, which means I fit the bill. Current NHS guidelines promote CBT as the psychological treatment of choice, and CCBT (with the extra C being Computerised) was shown to be effective in a recent trial. The official programme is called "Beating the Blues" which includes a 15 minute video and a brief chat with a counsellor or pyschology assistant at the end of each 1 hour session on a practice computer (eight sessions in total). This costs the PCT £400 and isn't available at my practice. Mood Gym I can do in my own time, at my own pace, and I should get the same out of it as attending a similar programme at the practice, i.e. as much as I'm prepared to put in. Back in the Spring, when I was having trouble leaving my sofa even to go to the toilet, I was offered psychiatric help. The deal was that if there was no improvement two weeks after they upped my dose of Paroxetine (Fluoxetine had been tried already and it sent me loopy) then I would be referred. Luckily -I think -it didn't come to that. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

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