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VAuroch comments on Talking to yourself: A useful thinking tool that seems understudied and underdiscussed - Less Wrong Discussion
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As a negative data point, while I do talk to myself regularly, I find it frequently magnifies my neuroses (social anxiety) rather than help me manage decisions appropriately.
What are you saying when you do that?
If you're verbalizing your neuroses, I would expect that to make them worse. If you were verbalizing something helpful, such as new post-neurotic beliefs acquired in CBT, I would expect that to alleviate those neuroses. Am I wrong?
Trying to weigh what the right decisions to make in a given circumstance, generally. Which has the usual side-effect of making the possibility that I'm acting suboptimally more available, feeding the neurosis. This happens even when I attempt to frame things as "What would unanxious VAuroch do?", generally by massively overcompensating and swinging back and forth.
I have no new post-neurotic beliefs, as neither I nor my (CBT-using) therapist has yet arrived at a diagnosis more specific than 'probably some variant of social anxiety with some comorbidity', so I don't know what would help, and have not tested things.