No, I didn't see your last edit until just now. We don't leave out the feelings with CBT. You seem to think cbt has nothing to do with feelings. You call it superficial. That's a misunderstanding on your part. CBT is about the connection between our thoughts and our feelings, so yes, we constantly deal with both. I would say children make irrational conclusions all the time. Just because they are kids doesn't make their thinking rational. That's just the way kids are. It's not an insult to say kids can have irrational thoughts. We AREN"T children anymore. We can look at our old mistaken beliefs and thoughts and work through them now. That is "deep work" as you call it. I have no idea why it wouldn't be.

I do believe as adults we can control what we think. That's not easy work either. That isn't superficial. It isn't a light switch we turn on and off. We have to work at it. With CBT, we DON'T "force our thoughts"; we work through them, and through working through them, we "understand where they come from and work with them for change."

We really aren't on different pages here. I just don't think you have a good understanding of CBT.