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“I’m not saying TV Tropes is right about everything,” I typed into the chat window, “but right now it understands your life better than you do.” I have invented a new form of psychotherapy I call it Cognitive Trope Therapy the way it works is that when you have a thought, you write it down like, say “You are different from the others. You will never know their innocence… and that is why you should hate your own existence. Die. Die. Die.” then you figure out whether, if your life were a fantasy novel, these words would be spoken by figures wearing black robes, and speaking in a dry, whispering voice, and they are actually withered beings who touched the Stone of Evil and if so then you don’t listen I would write this up as a pop psych bestseller but it would be only two pages long now I know what you are thinking you are thinking “but what if the whispering voice seems like it might have a point” and to this I say there are various stages of life, mood, and skill where you may be better

Cognitive Trope Therapy "I'm not saying TV Tropes is right about everything," I typed into the chat window, "but right now it understands your life better than you do." I have invented a new form of psychotherapy I call it Cognitive Trope Therapy the way it works is that when you have a thought, you write it down like, say "You are different from the others. You will never know their innocence… and that is why you should hate your own existence. Die. Die. Die." then you figure out whether, if your life were a fantasy novel, these words would be spoken by figures wearing black robes, and

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