Hi Kiwi,
It's great that you were able to get such beneficial treatment. I was seriously depressed at one time when I was young but they didn't have very good treatment options back then.

A lot of the people I know who have had CBT for various reasons, including anxiety and ocd and depression etc, in more recent years have found help. I've seen it work so well in other people. I think that if I'd done CBT way back then, I would have learned a lot more useful coping mechanisms and overcome some negative thought patterns and behaviours that were set up in childhood and that affected the way I dealt with some pretty awful times in my life.