[mikepurvis]

True, yes, but nothing you hear in a CBT session should be super surprising. It may help you see things in a new way or understand the motivations of the other people involved in your life situations, but they're not going to tell you sleep with crystals or wear a magnetic bracelet or something.

Basically the counselling/therapy part of the process would be identifying if there's a "real world" root cause to address ahead of going the pharma route and facing potential side effects, and/or the reality of having to go off it later and immediately regressing because the root cause hasn't been fixed.

In any case, I'm obviously not a doctor; neither this post nor the GP should be construed as medical advice.