However, away from the track, Dobbin endured more than his share of tragedy in 2002.
BBC: Dobbin is one of the unsung heroes of the jumping game.
Dr Dobbin says doctors who use the programme report a fall in anti-depressant prescribing of about 20%.
Capt Mike Dobbin, 28, of the Grenadier Guards, is among 118 people recognised in the latest military honours.
Capt Dobbin, from Reigate, Surrey, led the attack in the face of machine gun fire just metres away.
"Being an Olympic athlete is all about developing resilience, " said Dr Dobbin.
Dr Dobbin says his colleagues welcome the opportunity to offer patients something other than pills or a long wait to see a therapist.
The motion has also been signed by Labour MPs Jim Dobbin and Michael Connarty, Liberal Democrat Bob Russell and Mark Durkan of the SDLP.
Dobbin began his apprenticeship under the guidance of Jonjo O'Neill in 1988 and also worked under Gordon Richards out of the Greystoke stables in Cumbria.
BBC: Dobbin is one of the unsung heroes of the jumping game.
Dobbin's successful association with Len Lungo made him the top north of England-based jockey in the 2001-02 season, passing the 100-winner mark for the first time in his career.
BBC: Dobbin is one of the unsung heroes of the jumping game.
Dr Dobbin and Ms Ross have formed a charity to promote the programme and a one-day training course which GPs need to complete in order to prescribe the self-help CDs.
The positive mental training programme was developed by Edinburgh GP Dr Alastair Dobbin and Sheila Ross, a public health specialist, and has been endorsed by the Royal College of GPs.
Dr Dobbin and Ms Ross developed the programme after finding that techniques commonly used by sports psychologists were especially helpful when used on the patients they were seeing in depression clinics.
In another incident, deep in enemy territory, part of the platoon found themselves seven metres away from four armed insurgents and a fierce firefight ensued with Capt Dobbin charging forward to drive the enemy away.
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