Your final point is not at all controversial! The very point of CBT is not to dwell on how you feel. Instead be active and take control of yourself. For me th

Your final point is not at all controversial! The very point of CBT is not to dwell on how you feel. Instead be active and take control of yourself. For me that meant running/long cardio sessions. I worked with a Dr who used CBT, and I explored various techniques for dealing with my thoughts. The mind is a though machine, thats what it does. You just have to learn how to turn it off sometimes! People should not be fed ideas around satisfaction, success, happiness and so on. Because so often those emotions are mapped to results of our society's ideal of a perfect human. Walking and talking in a social group is what humans have evolved to do, but yet we've ironed that experience out of lives. Drive to work, use a Peloton alone at home, come to an office and dont talk when you should be working. Don't say anything online as it'll be used against you and so on... Our society is just awful.