Virtual Therapy Helps Patients Suffering From Depression
Professor Chris Brewin, lead author of the study, said the results were promising and patients had described the experience as “very powerful”. “The aim was to teach patients to be more compassionate towards themselves and less self-critical.” “People who struggle with anxiety and depression can be excessively self-critical when things go wrong in their lives,” he told the BBC. “In this study, by comforting the child and then hearing their own words back, patients are indirectly giving themselves compassion....