You've actually completely changed my mind about CBT. I used to think it wouldn't help me, that I needed psychoanalysis but when I'm depressed, ruminating about attachment theory etc can actually worsen my depression and make me feel doomed really, that I'm doomed to have a
certain attachment style in certain situations but something like schema therapy or CBT does actually make me feel more optimistic because isn't the whole objective of a psychological formulation about working from where you're at right now? If I'm asked too much about my family
in therapy, I end up feeling worse because it just increases the patterns of rumination that are already there..ends up feeling harmful after a while, like picking at a raw wound..that sometimes, delving in deep can cause harm/feels too much. Not sure if I'm explaining that well