Re:Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
by numpad0 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @09:32AM
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That had been my excuse for ignoring my own problems for years so I’d add:
If you think you’re insane but also thinking it could be self-mis-diagnosis, no, you are not sane.
There is no such inherent contradiction in an ability for a logical system to detect its own anomaly were you one.
If it had been a false positive, the fact that a false positive is occurring itself is an anomaly, and an issue.
Re:Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
by rytill on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:35PM
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Can you elaborate on this? This reads okay but it's at a higher level of abstraction and I don't know the specific phenomena to which it's referring.
Re:Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
by sci_prog on Thursday February 06, 2020 @06:01PM
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How do you distinguish these thoughts from the intrusive ones?
Re:Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
by vanderZwan on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:01AM
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You go look for external help with figuring that out. Which brings us back to...
To add to this: we also tend to think we can correctly assess any problem without external help, but especially when it comes to the "self" this fails. It's kind of inevitable: being able to analyze a problem requires some distance, but taking distance from yourself, especially your problem areas, fundamentally goes against that. The result is blind spots.