shminux comments on Let Your Workers Gather Food - Less Wrong

22 Post author: D_Malik 24 October 2011 07:51PM

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Comment author: shminux 26 October 2011 06:01:03PM 0 points [-]

Yeah... my spouse ignores pain (to her detriment), tried to live like this years ago and still subconsciously idealizes it, and she's miserable a fair chunk of the time.

And I suppose getting her to talk to a professional about it is out of the question.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 October 2011 06:16:33PM 1 point [-]

No; her physician and therapist are people she listens to (or listened to -- therapist got cancer, she needs to get a new one) about this. It's just difficult to shake off -- she's getting help for it, but it's kind of like chronic depression or addiction; making progress against the background is much more realistic than just expecting it to entirely go away, and the trait itself never does just vanish.