Thank you so much for writing and acknowledging this. My first (more inexperienced) therapist offered me books and strategies targeted at people with generalized anxiety. I tried reading them but they almost offended me with how simple and irrelevant they were. Rationalize your thoughts, the books said. Well, duh. I wasn’t worried about irrational things — I was worried about very rational things like sudden death of people I loved, abandonment and betrayal, and sexual assault; real things that happened to me as a kid. So I almost felt more triggered that the root of my issues were being completely misunderstood. My therapist now specializes in trauma and it’s been one of the biggest blessings of my life to get the support I need.