Your claim is that one's depression, anxiety, paranoia, etc., caused by post-traumatic stress, is purely the result of conscious thoughts, even though the indiv

Your claim is that one's depression, anxiety, paranoia, etc., caused by post-traumatic stress, is purely the result of conscious thoughts, even though the individual knows, consciously, that they are no longer in immediate danger? As for the second case, the "deconstruction" of a phobia is more characteristic of psychoanalysis than CBT.