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And if you get hurt by something, you get hurt. Now that doesn't mean that in reviewing the situation, you aren't able to reconstruct the meaning in a way that you can soothe the hurt, or perhaps find that you mis-interpreted the stimulus. But you still hurt initially. I don't believe you can erase or change that. You are correct that you do not have to act on the hurt. But I do not believe that you can avoid the initial hurt unless you avoid the stimulus itself.

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To my knowledge, it was never stated that the initial hurt can be bypassed with CBT. The purpose of CBT is to teach us to think in different ways.

The quote above is basically what happens when we apply CBT to our responses to unpleasant things.