Yes, DePress, I agree that often it's the statements. I was having trouble in my group therapy and my individual therapist listened and then made the simple but life-changing statement, "I don't know much about group therapy, but I don't think they are out to get you." It was immensely freeing (I had unconsciously felt/been acting as if they were out to get me) and an example of how I forget to "check" reality and other people's thoughts and feelings, going with my own assumptions (very often wrong) instead.