Yeah, sorry. My comment was meant to agree, but illustrate that to people without anxiety (or disinclined to trust the medical establishment) CBT might come across as little different from “it’s all in your head”.

I suffer from the same, and after CBT, it’s actually kind of worse to hear “it isn’t real, so don’t worry”, because I know it (on the balance of probability) isn’t real, but somehow that doesn’t make me feel any better.