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It would seem to follow that CBT causes patients' ability to read the information conveyed by their depressive ruminations to deteriorate. Are there trade-offs in CBT for depression larger than we're aware of?
That is possible, but note that depression itself is massively bad for, well, anything, including the quality of thoughts.
Certainly that's true of severe depression, but mild depression carries some intellectual benefits. Greater rationality seems to be among them.