I remember the first time someone said that to me. It was a therapist and I just began sobbing and saying, “no. That can’t be true.” It was meant to comfort me but instead I was weeping for all the others who felt like this too. Weeping for how terrible of a place this society/world must be if I am not a unique freak of nature that has been given the ability to feel this much pain. I still feel that way but I have learned that when people say that “I am not alone “ their intentions are so help, so I try to take comfort from that.