What is this sentence like without the word rationality?
Purposeless. The very reason I ask this on LessWrong is that I care about being more rational, less biased, more clear-headed etc., and I have some worries that my resistance to psychotherapy is a clue that I’m failing at this. That I have biases I’m clinging to.
Can you articulate to your therapist why you are having difficulty? It could be that the two of you are not a good match, or it could be that she can work with you, so long as you’re open.
The thing is, I don’t have much of a choice. I met her through my cousin and for that reason she agreed to receive me without payment. I can’t afford paid therapy; I have tried another therapist previously and I pretty much spent $40 just to hear that she doesn’t think I’m eligible for psychotherapy. I think I’d have been happier if I had spent the money on meds.
If you’re good at fixing the parts of yourself that you let yourself fix, you should expect that the thing you would get the most benefit from fixing is likely to be a part of you that you don’t let yourself fix.
I didn’t say this originally because it would have been a mouthful, but I’m also sane enough to recognize when a cherished trait of mine is actually maladaptive and self-modify in that direction. I’ve undergone significant changes in recent years, that cannot be solely attributed to “growing up”. I’ve even tried my hand at extraversion, from the starting point of an incurable introvert, because I believed it would get me closer to my goals. (It mostly turned out to be a great way to increase spendings on alcohol and decrease time left for productive pursuits, but maybe I’m not in the right social circle.)
Thanks for expanding on what therapy can do for me.
Purposeless. The very reason I ask this on LessWrong is that I care about being more rational, less biased, more clear-headed etc., and I have some worries that my resistance to psychotherapy is a clue that I’m failing at this. That I have biases I’m clinging to.
The thing is, I don’t have much of a choice. I met her through my cousin and for that reason she agreed to receive me without payment. I can’t afford paid therapy; I have tried another therapist previously and I pretty much spent $40 just to hear that she doesn’t think I’m eligible for psychotherapy. I think I’d have been happier if I had spent the money on meds.
I didn’t say this originally because it would have been a mouthful, but I’m also sane enough to recognize when a cherished trait of mine is actually maladaptive and self-modify in that direction. I’ve undergone significant changes in recent years, that cannot be solely attributed to “growing up”. I’ve even tried my hand at extraversion, from the starting point of an incurable introvert, because I believed it would get me closer to my goals. (It mostly turned out to be a great way to increase spendings on alcohol and decrease time left for productive pursuits, but maybe I’m not in the right social circle.)
Thanks for expanding on what therapy can do for me.