I often start sessions nowadays with, "this person on psychocentral wrote in about blah blah blah..." then I say how the person is similar and different to me. It's the same trick as, "my 'friend' has this problem..." The first time I did this, saying it was PC, I really did not realize it was really also MY issue until I was more than half-way through it - then we both realized what I was doing and we started laughing so hard - and I am as big a perfectionist as the next neurotic, so...