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Re:Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism? by numpad0 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @09:32AM (#22256197)
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 (#22268463)
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 (#22261382)
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 (#22264859)
You go look for external help with figuring that out. Which brings us back to...
Re:Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism? by fiv0 on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:57PM (#22272862)
This is for me, so far, HN comment of year.