I don't post here often (at all, really), but I read most of the posts by others. I have social anxiety, and it's just..."one of those things" that's really hard for me to do.

Anyway, I have a question for you all. I'm a psychology student (It's my minor, but i've taken a lot of classes) and feel like I've learned a lot about different therapies that exist, especially CBT...maybe too much? I recently joined a group, and found that I could predict what the therapist would say/do. I knew what was coming and all that...and the group didn't really help me at all.

What do you do if you KNOW the cognitive distortions, you can identify them, but you still can't do anything about it? I can see how things are linked (cognitions-emotions-biochemistry-etc.)...I've studied it! But I can't help myself, and I think that knowing these things is actually detrimental to me getting better.

Has anyone else experienced this? What would you suggest? What comes next? I'm so confused and let down...