Does anyone feel like during CBT, the whole part when you challenge a thought...a cognitive distortion...and you're either suggested or told to come up with an alternative thought and then the therapist has a discussion about that...

Did you ever feel like the thoughts your therapist suggested or approved weren't always truthier? In your best interest?

Sometimes I felt like the non-verboten thoughts were just lies the therapist wanted me to believe, because they sound so wholesome or healthy, or convenient. That it's something they wanted me to believe, but not necessarily the truth.

Sometimes I would feel that way. Like on the surface, the therapy was supposed to be about realism, but really it was manipulation, like I was just some dumb thing that needed to be fed lies for my own good.