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After a one-hour session with an exceptional counselor, I never suffered over that romantic incident again. Although, that's inaccurate, I also had 2x half-hour relapses in following month.

After a few more sessions, I stopped doing depression.

I brought the rest of my anxieties to that counselor over the following year, and…

Radically effective and rapid psychological growth is possible with the right combination of counselor and method. But this is rare in 2024!

Introspection that actually works

It was while working with that counselor that, for the first time I could remember, I was able to actually do introspection.

Before, whenever I had problems that seemed to be caused by my psychology, I would do the obvious thing and ask myself, “Why am I doing <harmful thing>? Why am I not doing <helpful thing>?”

But that almost never worked. Usually I would [...]

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Outline:

(00:40) Introspection that actually works

(01:47) Learning to facilitate

(03:49) What does a session look like?

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First published:
June 5th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qyRfuDYnwJFemQb6a/rapid-psychological-growth

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“rapid psychological growth” by Chipmonk

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