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>My feeling is that most people on /lit/ are introspective enough to outsmart the mainstream alphabet soup of therapies: CBT, ACT, DBT and all. But in some sense it doesn't really matter because they all have somewhat middling response rates in aggregate. The biggest determinant is the practitioner, so ask around and maybe try a few out.
I would guess that the vast majority of qualified therapists out there are only really equipped to prompt reptilian-brain-guided normies into the most basic forms of introspection, which from what I gather is what most peoples' engagement in talk therapy is like. I know people who regularly attend therapy for years and it has had zero impact on their persisting negative personality traits and seems to be used mostly as a form of optimizing the self to perform better at work.
One of the major problems of therapy, IMO, is that its goals are fundamentally irreconcilable with its profit oriented arrangement. How can you tell a egotistically unstable client that he's a narcissistic asshole just like his father, and that his beloved mother was actually worse when your paycheck depends on him coming back again and again? It's better to tell him "actually, you did nothing wrong, it's those other people who are all narcissists and don't respect your space! now that'll be $100; see you next week!"
i unironically think that socially maladaptives would be better off getting torn to shreds on an anonymous gambian flint knapping forum than getting their egos soothed and validated by a certified professional
