Therapy is hard — it’s like physical therapy that way. You have to build the muscle to support the tendons & ligaments, you can’t just steroid it away. (Not that we don’t try.) There are no shortcuts into being a pro-social person. You just have to do the work. 6/6
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Because in real life behavioral change is almost impossible, unfortunately Like yeah I've known a handful of people who've lost weight and kept it off long-term (literally less than five) One of them had to resort to drastic physical measures (lap-band surgery)
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... Rather than weight/diet (which was a metaphor), consider exvangelicals. That’s a massive cognitive and behavioral change. Or people who refuse to perpetuate the child abuse they learned.
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What you can change is your perception of received wisdom and its fallacies, and with that, your dialogue with yourself. on a not food/diet: there’s a lot of received wisdom on gender roles. That we can question and reject. (Or divorce or punitive child rearing or patriotism.)
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