On one level it seems a little harsh to criticize this video, creepy as parts of it may be to certain viewers such as myself. After all, gratitude in the face of hardship can be a very noble trait, and can at times lead to healing. And I agree that self-pity and unforgiveness only exacerbate most issues of the sort dealt with in the video. As Anne Lamott said, "Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die."

But, the words "Thank God I Was Raped" and the other permutations rub me the wrong way for some reason. I think it is because there is a difference, in my reckoning, between ideas like forgiveness and letting go and the ideas in this video, in which people seem to use the idea of gratitude to ignore and repress the immense hurt that has come from the bad things that have happened to them. Maybe I'm a cynic, but I think that for some of these people the words "Thank God I..." are really a way of trying to convince themselves that what happened really wasn't so bad after all. Maybe, just maybe, it didn't even really happen at all.