See, normalization helps me sometimes, stopdog, when I can get past knowing that it's a 'trick' that CBT therapists use. I feel like SUCH a freak so often, that someone stopping me and saying, no, no, other people feel that way also, helps me not to feel like a freak. I feel so alone and so weird and different, that it's helpful for me to have an 'expert' tell me that my response is 'normal.'