I think therapy is misunderstood. Therapy isn't about talking to someone and being magically better, it's very hard.
Same as CBT. Doing CBT sucks! But it's working for me! I'm so anxious, I get depressed, but I was like that before anyways and I wasn't leaving the house then! I know that in time it's going to get easier, so that's why I can handle the anxiety, the lack of sleep, the days of feeling really depressed, because I'm facing my fears and changing my perceptions. I have no rosy happy view of recovery, there is no way of finding a recovery that isn't immensely hard and takes courage and commitment and perserverance. I'm a realist.
But if you've been trying therapy and it hasn't been working, try something else. I don't really think anything is overrated because every treatment is different. Sabbath92203 thinks CBT is overrated. CBT is working for me. But I agree that meds are overrated. So there's no one way of recovering, you have to try everything that's available to you and hopefully you'll find that thing that works for you.
