Heads up, ‘There is a lot to try before going that route’ is a medical opinion that is hard to notice. Exactly what the treatment plan would be and in what order is entirely up to the doctor and sometimes (often) the best thing that works is the actual drugs.
I’m just conscious of this because I’ve seen this argument used to justify delaying actual treatment in favour of ‘alternative medicine’.
True, yes, but nothing you hear in a CBT session should be super surprising. It may help you see things in a new way or understand the motivations of the other people involved in your life situations, but they're not going to tell you sleep with crystals or wear a magnetic bracelet or something.
Basically the counselling/therapy part of the process would be identifying if there's a "real world" root cause to address ahead of going the pharma route and facing potential side effects, and/or the reality of having to go off it later and immediately regressing because the root cause hasn't been fixed.
In any case, I'm obviously not a doctor; neither this post nor the GP should be construed as medical advice.
I’m just conscious of this because I’ve seen this argument used to justify delaying actual treatment in favour of ‘alternative medicine’.