Mindfulness-Based Interventions, especially Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, has shown to be very beneficial in treating depression and many of the symptoms that are tied with it, like insomnia.

Mindfulness Based Interventions for Depression

Mindfulness-Based Interventions, especially Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, has shown to be very beneficial in treating anxiety disorders.

Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Anxiety Disorders

Mindfulness-based interventions such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) are shown to decrease symptom severity of anxiety disorders and depression

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) was one of the original treatments for mental disorders like depression and anxiety.  While CBT is still a very popular treatment, mindfulness-based interventions like Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) have been shown to be as effective as CBT, creating the "new" types of treatment.

Mindfulness Interventions in Patients with Depression and Anxiety

Goldin, P. R., & Gross, J. J. (2010). Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on emotion regulation in social anxiety disorder. Emotion, 10(1), 83–91. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018441

Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on EmotionRegulation in Social Anxiety Disorder

Improved sleep quality due to mindfulness meditation within mindfulness-based cognitive therapy could be the mediator between mindfulness, improved depression, and lowered relapse risk because mindfulness meditation reduces sympathetic hyperarousal and decreases negative emotions such as anxiety, stress, and rumination that can contribute to insomnia.

Sleep quality as a potential mediator between mindfulness and depression relapse

Some researchers believe that mindfulness is a natural state, so they searched for predictors of mindfulness.  Predictors they looked at included openness to experience and attentional control.  During their study they looked at trait anxiety, attachment anxiety and attentional control. Due to anxiety blocking many of the predictors they tested for, it was concluded that anxiety (both specific and general) is agonistic to mindfulness.  So, because anxiety turns anxious people away from mindfulness, it makes sense to help treat anxiety with mindfulness-based interventions.

Natural Mindfulness and Anxiety

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is one of the most common therapy treatments for anxiety disorders (specific or general) and depression.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy as Treatment for Anxiety Disorders and Depression

Cognitive-Behavioral therapy has been deemed an "umbrella term" for a conceptual model of treatment versus a single approach. Mindfulness-based interventions are similar to Cognitive-Behavioral therapy because they target core processes, such as increased emotional awareness and regulation, cognitive flexibility, and goals-based behaviors. Combining mindfulness and CBT has created Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

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