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I have visited multiple therapists in my life and just had nothing to talk about because I already know exactly why I am acting how I am. I know why my life is fucked up and what I could do to fix it. I’m just not doing it
Everyone feels like this. A therapist isn’t going to tell you things about yourself you didn’t know.
Think of it like a personal trainer. We all know that exercising regularly will help maintain good health, but few people actually do it. A PT can help you develop a regime which is achievable and targeted to your goals.
It’s turtles all the way down. Someone gets a great routine from a PT, does it for six days, and never again.
How do you give someone an internal locus of control?
Everyone feels like this. A therapist isn’t going to tell you things about yourself you didn’t know.
I really don’t think “everyone” understands their life and internal psychology that much.
I guess I genuinely don’t know.
There’s certainly people in my life that just don’t seem to have any self awareness at all.
I guess I always just thought that those people probably have some awareness but they just never acknowledge it.
Do the things. And leave your copay with my secretary. I need to release my findings. I just cured your ADHD!
Thank you for your individualized assessment that ignores all of my other interconnected problems to present an individualized solution that would fix exactly nothing i care about. I will now pay you 80$ co-pay and refrain from explaining how I’m better at your job thatln you are.
I envy the stupid and those with no self-awareness sometimes
I am simply unable to live a boring, middling life where I’m not curious about all the things
Userame checks out… I guess?
Yeah, I enjoy fisting
I’m really good at it too
Ok, so obviously I am a dork. One of my fascinations is neurobiology. Unmanaged self-awareness actually IS the challenge for many people.
Really fresh research from a huge number of different groups is confirming this. Revved-up ‘Top-down’ processing (model-based processing, what your brain is trained to expect of the world) that is not moderated by interoceptive awareness (ability to sense internal body states clearly) leads to specific types of anxiety disorders.
‘Listening to your gut’ is a real thing and some people naturally struggle to do that, through either natural disposition or childhood trauma, or a combination of both.
I wonder how similar that is to what psychologists themselves have to deal with. I do know that it’s a thing for psychologists to get therapy sessions with other psychologists, because even if you understand your issues in theory doesn’t mean you can deal with all of them on your own - in many ways, humans just don’t work like that.
I felt this so much. It’s not just self-awareness, but awareness of the world around you.
I’ve been chatting with a close friend recently, and we both agree that it cause us tremendous pain to be so acutely aware. Being ignorant and looking away is not something we’re capable of.
