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Just watched "How to Be". It reassured my 11 year old self that I was right, everyone needs help. Even your therapist. Blaming mommy and daddy can only get you so far. It's cliche, think of something original. Think of something else, like an irrational fear. Taking an example from the movie, one character used to be a happy, vibrant child, until one day he began to worry about heart attacks. He spent the majority of his life in recluse, and had some form of agoraphobia. One believed that he could change his personality and attitude by changing his clothes. He didn't allow himself to feel emotion. The main character had to grow up with insufferable parents, who dealt with repressed issues of their own childhoods, which resulted in a broken family. The main character makes a failed attempt to make up for a lack of a childhood, but only drifts further apart from his parents after his mother admits that she feels personally responsible for giving birth to "a worthless son." The therapist dealt with an abusive mother who thought he couldn't do anything right. In turn he tries to tell people that any problems they encounter are not their fault, but that of the worlds. Like the tag line says: "Sometimes we all need a little help."