Dr. Arpaia told me to conjure an image that was completely disassociated from my life and fixate my mind’s eye on that until sleep took me. My favorite thing to visualize was an image of myself curled up inside a walnut shell, completely cozy and protected from the outside world. Dr. Arpaia also gave me a notebook and he’d have me write down certain things over and over again, like when I had to write “Day by day, in every way, I’m getting better and better” one hundred times. Another day my assignment was to write “I have a body but I’m not my body, I have thoughts but I am not my thoughts, I
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