I am just starting it now. So it's new to me. So far I feel like it's helping me with my anxiety. Ash 122 can help you more with this. She knows about it. Maybe PM her. She will tell you more.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is an excellent treatment plan.

The more effort you put into it, the better the results.

Keeping a journal helps you to see the progress and provides you with clues as to what works best when.

Best wishes.

CBT can be extremely helpful. You just have to work hard. But its worth it.
It can improve your life.

My therapist recently gave me a book/workbook on it. I've found it very useful so far. And everyone is right. You get as much out of it as you put into it. You're restructuring your brain and your thoughts. It's difficult but worth it if you stick it out.

CBT has techniques that will help you identify automatic faulty cognitions.Once identified, the second step is to figure out how they came to be and that there is no proof for them to be acurate. Then you will replace that faulty cognition( for instance a negative thought about yourself) with a positive cognition until the positive cognition becomes an automatic thought. This is a lot of work and you get what you put in. However, once you train yourself to have positive thoughts then, your behavior will start to change. I believe is an effective tx modality for anxiety issues. I did a little bit of it but my therapist had more of an ecletic approach.

I am taking an online cbt course now. It doses offer insight into the triggers of anxiety/depression.
Its not easy but i hope to get some relief using it in combination with medication.
It may cause an temporary increase in discomfort at first.
I am willing to try pretty much anything that offers hope.
Good luck

I am trying to get an appt with a new therapist that uses cbt.

I did it as part of a mindfulness meditation course run by a psychologist many years ago. It helped a lot and although it was so long ago that I have regressed a bit, I still think it is having a positive effect. It’s hard dealing with other people’s warped logic and wish I could tell them about it. Mainly is it true? How do you know it to be true? Is there another logical explanation. Don’t believe things to be true just because you thought it.

CBT sounds good but i guess as with all types of therapy it will work for some and not work for others. Try it and see what happens for you. There is no harm in trying, God bless.

Thanks for your comments everyone :) This is my 2nd time going through cbt, the first time I didn't think it did much but then half way through something just clicked, but this was a few years ago and I need some help at the minute, I'm finding it's not really doing anything this time round but I don't know if that depends on what your therapist is like?

Yes my therapist did can’t with me and it did help. I still use it today