Actually, Adelene Dawner was helping me for months before I had any contact with Alicorn, though Adelene's methods were similar to what Alicorn described in her Luminosity Sequence.

Basically the main problem was that I was pushing myself too hard, and worrying too much, for reasons that were actually counterproductive. I was also trying to suppress all desires and emotion, and it turns out that was a very bad idea. I offered to post a detailed analysis of my progress, to LW, or possibly someplace else, but so far almost noone seemed interested.

As for the strategies we used to solve these problems, we got a surprising amount of leverage from the City of Lights technique. But mostly it was just asking the standard questions "what do I believe and why do I believe it?", and "what am I doing and why am I doing it?". And just generally talking through stuff we didn't understand until we figured it out. And my results were surprisingly similar to what Alicorn described in her Ureshiku Naritai post.