'Cause you can beat yourself over the head with your alledged cognitive distortions as much as you like and you won't cure yourself that way.

Or...

You can be kind and gentle to yourself and encouraging and sympathetic and that goes some way...

But mostly... It is about someone external being kind and gentle and encouraging and sympathetic methinks. A bond with another such that... One is better equipped to bond with oneself and with other human beings.

Sigh.

What happened to the humanity??????????