> My conclusion was that CBT is effective to the extent that you are willing to give up on the concept of truth. People who train themselves to see only the pos

> My conclusion was that CBT is effective to the extent that you are willing to give up on the concept of truth. People who train themselves to see only the positive are happier than those that insist on truth. I decided that truth was more important to me than happiness, dropped the CBT, and stuck with the meds. I think you may have gotten the wrong impression of CBT. The point isn't to delude and bombard yourself with constantly positive thoughts. In fact, that rarely works for us HN-types. In fact, I'd posit that it's the opposite of self-delusion: It's about viewing plain facts as well as your emotional bias towards them, and the (maybe false or exaggerated?) conclusions that those biases lead you to. It turns out that some of us have different cognitive biases such as badly weighted risk assessment, picking the worst possible conclusion etc. It doesn't help that these form a vicious cycle. Nor that these biased thoughts sometimes seem to happen automatically (rather than you consciously coming up with them) and appear to be plain facts, already assumed and taken as granted. The point is, something that looks like a crisis to me may look mildly uncomfortable to someone else. The idea is to dig down and see why. edit: Another point I forgot to make is, this arms you against future encounters. You know how your mind falls into certain pitfalls and you learn to recognize them. The next time, you're not fooled as easily. This is a very powerful notion: knowing your own faults. Not to mention the feeling of victory that you get when you catch your mind red handed :)