Greg Lukianoff

And what you do in CBT is essentially you have –

something makes you upset and then you just write down what the thought was.

Um, and you know, something minor could happen.

And your response was, you know, like, um, well, the date didn't seem to go very well.

Um, and that's because I'm broken and we'll die alone.

And you're like, okay, okay, okay.

What, what, what are, what are the following?

You know, uh, that's catastrophizing.

That's mind reading.

That's a fortune telling.

That's all this stuff.

Um, and you have to do this several times a day, um,

I actually need to brush up on it at the moment.

And it slowly over time, voices in my head that have been saying horrible, you know, horrible internal talk.

It just didn't sound as convincing anymore, which was a really kind of like subtle effect.

Like it was just kind of like, oh, wait, I don't buy that I'm broken.

You know, like that doesn't sound true.

That doesn't sound like truth from God like it used to.

And nine months after I was...

planning to kill myself, I was probably happier than I'd been in a decade.