What are some suggestions for approaching life rationally when you know that most of your behavior will be counter to your goals, that you’ll know this behavior is counter to your goals, and you DON’T know whether or not ending this division between what you want and what you do (ie forgetting about your goals and why what you’re doing is irrational and just doing it) has a net harmful or helpful effect?
I’m referring to my anxiety disorder. My therapist recently told me something along the lines of, “But you have a very mild form of conversion disorder. Even though your whole body gets paralyzed, whereas you could function with just a hand paralyzed, most people with the disorder aren’t aware that it has a psychological cause, and they worry about it all the time, going to doctor after doctor to try to get a physical cure.” It doesn’t FEEL mild when I’ve been barely able to move for eight hours and finally get going enough to log onto the computer and waste time browsing online. Insight can be painful when you have so long to dwell on it.
My current thinking is that the best way to get what I want out of life is to get treatment, which I am doing, and to keep an optimistic view of my ability to be non-disabled. It’s gotten a lot better, but I still spend a considerable amount of time making very bad decisions, or having the anxiety make them for me.
What are some suggestions for approaching life rationally when you know that most of your behavior will be counter to your goals, that you’ll know this behavior is counter to your goals, and you DON’T know whether or not ending this division between what you want and what you do (ie forgetting about your goals and why what you’re doing is irrational and just doing it) has a net harmful or helpful effect?
I’m referring to my anxiety disorder. My therapist recently told me something along the lines of, “But you have a very mild form of conversion disorder. Even though your whole body gets paralyzed, whereas you could function with just a hand paralyzed, most people with the disorder aren’t aware that it has a psychological cause, and they worry about it all the time, going to doctor after doctor to try to get a physical cure.” It doesn’t FEEL mild when I’ve been barely able to move for eight hours and finally get going enough to log onto the computer and waste time browsing online. Insight can be painful when you have so long to dwell on it.
My current thinking is that the best way to get what I want out of life is to get treatment, which I am doing, and to keep an optimistic view of my ability to be non-disabled. It’s gotten a lot better, but I still spend a considerable amount of time making very bad decisions, or having the anxiety make them for me.