And sorry for the potential rant but I don't think my therapist helps me - I don't think my psychiatrist helps me - I don't think anything really helps me honestly. Communication skills don't help me. Nor do self-help books. There is just life. My thoughts are brought to me one by one like a conveyor belt. I decide which ones to follow and which not. At least I wish that were the case. But it's not. My mind doesn't work that way. My mind works by selecting the most poignant sorrow and amplifying it. Then it tries to get me to think that thing over and over again.