Oh absolutely - I second that. But then I am cynical most of the time.

A CBT practitioner needs to be very careful not to impose his/her views on the subject. In some ways I see it as self brain washing. I choose not to feel like this when that happens because I am thinking something. I am going to try to think something else and hopefully feel different.

Sadly we cant always change the world - and when the problem is the people in it you rarely cant.