I'm on week 7 of cbt and psychotherapy with a specialist and I've seen nearly no difference and both my therapist and psychiatrist are trying to get me to take ssris. I see this as a way of admitting therapy isn't really that effective if you have a real problem which effects your entire body, eg digestive system. I've never heard of anyone who's actually recovered from crippling anxiety with therapy and instead just used ssris and then claimed therapy to be effective and then had to go back on ssris when they came off. Just very sceptical as therapy is a massive load of money.