>> A doctor I spoke to about CBT said he thought CBT was effective for the relatively intelligent, introspective people That makes sense to me. From my experie

>> A doctor I spoke to about CBT said he thought CBT was effective for the relatively intelligent, introspective people That makes sense to me. From my experience you have to be willing to take small events in your life and read into them/pull them apart in great detail. If you can't understand the root issue (the reason you react to your thoughts/feelings in a certain way) by examining your thoughts in that way then you can't really put into practice the basic tenets of CBT. Maybe it depends on the therapist but from my perspective it seemed like quite an intellectual way of dealing with your problems.