Thankyou for the post teach, I feel CBT helps tremendously, Looking within can provide so many answers that we could never find from others and CBT really helps you identify those thoughts, emotions, safety issues, fears which foster and feed anxiety and depression.
For those that don't have a therapist or don't have access to therapy, I have posted the link here many times,
Living Life to the Full offers a free selfhelp course in CBT it is presented in modules and I use the tools I learned there all the time. Once you can identify the problem area's within yourself you can use CBT tools to change those negative thoughts to positive actions and goals. For me that also helps identify the triggers that lead me to binge drink and thus helps me to avert many things that would in the past lead me into drinking and further depression.
Thanks again Teach.