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Comment author: polymathwannabe 13 April 2015 01:45:15PM 2 points [-]

Hypothesis: it is your therapist who has no idea what s/he is doing.

Hypothesis: it is you who are making this unnecessarily harder than it needs to be.

Hypothesis: CBT may not be what is needed for your particular case.

Hypothesis: something else nobody has considered yet.

How confident do you feel to assign respective probabilities to these hypotheses?

I consider myself rational enough to debug myself, if and only if I decide an intervention is warranted. Otherwise, I like and accept myself as I am, I consider most of my traits, broadly speaking, as part of my ideal self, and would like to preserve most aspects about myself.

I don't live inside your head, so I can't be sure, but this part sounds like you have strong mental tools to get out of your depression at your own pace and on your own terms. I wouldn't worry much.

Comment author: Dahlen 13 April 2015 04:54:16PM 0 points [-]

Well, thanks. I've considered all of these possibilities, but I can't say for sure which one is more probable than the others; to any given one I'd respond "maybe".