Years ago, I was ranting to my therapist about why everything...

Years ago, I was ranting to my therapist about why everything felt like such a struggle, that no one else had issues like mine, and that I was alone in the world because of it. She grabbed a textbook from her shelf and opened it to a chart like this.

Not only were my problems not unique and of my own creation, they were literally a textbook case.

And that was the start of me working on those distortions.