People are afraid to go to a psychiatrist because they feel that psychiatrists are strange people who do strange things. Well, nothing of the sort happens, psychiatrists employ scientifically proven therapies and not any witchcraft. Psychotherapy This is the most commonly used technique. The psychotherapy deals more with emotions and support in stress whereas cognitive therapy mainly works with your faulty beliefs. They are the slogans or principles that we use to deal with different situations in our life.
Few slogans are healthy and help in coping well.
Some of the slogans on the other hand are unhealthy, irrational prejudices and biases. It is these irrational beliefs that the cognitive therapy aims to help. Here the focus is on behaviour and not emotions and thinking. Some particular behaviours like, Fear of blood and injection so the person faints at the sight of them. These behaviours are very distressing to the patient and behaviour therapy aims at helping these by a few techniques.