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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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Comment author: VAuroch 10 September 2014 10:41:05PM *  1 point [-]

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.