This is anecdotal of course, but at my lowest point my problems felt all encompassing and larger than me, something I really didn't believe I could overcome. O

This is anecdotal of course, but at my lowest point my problems felt all encompassing and larger than me, something I really didn't believe I could overcome. On a friendly advice, one day I did some dissos (K). I didn't expect it to do anything, but turned out that true detachment from my problems was quite the foreign feeling. Suddenly the true scale of my problems became apparent. Nobody else told me this, I myself came to conclusion about my problems that "it's kind of nothing". And it wasn't dismissive, it was actually a comforting thought because it made the problems less intimidating, something I could work on rather than feeling defeated about. I didn't really get a dismissive tone from this article, but I think if I find the same conclusion to be helpful when it comes from within but dismissive when it comes from someone else, that's a little egotistic and counter productive.