CBT helps people uncover their anxiety-causing beliefs—the reasons why you think you should be anxious about something—so they can evaluate them and change them but knowing or “using” CBT isn’t enough. You or your mental health supporter(s) must be skilled enough to uncover anxiety-causing beliefs and thinking patterns that are often unconscious. Not everyone is skilled at this which may be why some people don’t improve despite all the publicly available anxiety content.
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Note: This post also explains what cognitive treatment is.
