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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

you can't change your personality' but I've been trying to do just that.

I often think about this. There are many things about myself I can change. Sometimes though it's like I'm on autopilot and while I can't stop it, I can see exactly how I'm acting.

I've had a number of head injuries and concussions. I also wonder if that has anything to do with it.

What are you trying to change about your personality?

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Isn't this part of what they push with cognitive behavioral therapy? The notion is that you take a more objective view of behaviors that you would like to change, and once you've seen them it helps to figure out a way to improve.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The goal in both is modifying behavior but CBT relies on a therapist to convince a patient that their thinking is distorted, to convince them to believe and behave differently. To ultimately stop the automatic behavior.

I accept there are things I can't modify, namely the automatic behavior cbt was meant to stop, and the things I can, and choose to modify are done because I want to. Nobody has to convince me of it.

But that autopilot isn't about rational thought.

[–]goobandit 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Tell us your problems, let saidit therapize the shit out of you free of charge

[–]SaidOverRed 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

For one, dangerously low enthusiasm.

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