Maladaptive behaviors: I thought that was normal

“Why didn’t I notice it sooner?” An example I’ve provided to often help individuals understand how they’ve gone their entire life, and be oblivious to the maladaptive behaviors is have them consider what it would be like to live your life up until this moment, and suddenly be given a pair of glasses, putting them on, seeing the world in a completely new way, and realizing all that you had been missing out on.