When I am feeling self-hating, I have a slough of reasons. None of them seem distorted to me. All of them seem pretty logical and reasonable. I duck and weave every CBT technique that tries to get me to change my thinking. I can handle persuasive arguments, but Jedi mind tricks? No.

I am very grateful that my therapist, who specializes in CBT, is comfortable with other stuff.

franki, I wouldn't like what happened to you either. When my therapist does start with the CBT stuff, it makes me think she's like a robot, just parroting what she's learned. Like I'm just another patient with regular, mundane problems--who can be easily re-programmed using a standard script.