CBT does not work for everyone. It's "pretty straightforward" for sure, almost laughbly so. It's a culturally-insenstitive framework for mental illness that, as

CBT does not work for everyone. It's "pretty straightforward" for sure, almost laughbly so. It's a culturally-insenstitive framework for mental illness that, as you exlicitly state, is about "calling out those cognitive distortions". Which implicitly assumes that your cognition IS distorted. - what if that creep who's stalking you actually IS a rapist? - what if your strained work situation actually IS a hostile takeover that's trying to sabatoge your company? - what if your family member's strange behavior actually IS a red light for suicide? - what if your investment in X IS actually going to tank and your family is going broke? CBT is so focussed on the idea that anxieties are "cogntive distortions" that it completely alientates anyone for whom those worries are realized, regularly.