I consider myself to have used the methods of LW to EXTREME effect. however, there is really not much to show for it since the vast majority of it is in compensating for mental illness that otherwise would make me abnormally irrational.
I’d say, from personal experience, that they almost certainly can. However, it’s obviously self applied and there’s no real data about it, and the whole diagnosis thing’s been and continue to be a mess and since I’ve pretty much fixed those parts they’re probably never going to show up on any official diagnosis even if/when I get proper such. Even if it could be proven that I had delusions and then didn’t, the evidence is still only anecdotal.
I’m a bit surprised at this response, if more information would be of use to you I’ll provide it. It might be, actually, if nothing else then to verify my conclusions. However, a lot of it is rather embarrassing, and a few bits probably private to, so I’d prefer not to spill my guts here in public, especially considering thinking about it tend to make me increasingly less coherent and reliable. For similar reasons it might be a good idea to, err, have me talk to someone whose long term opinion about me I care less about.
PM me with a quick description of what got fixed, maybe, never mind the gory details? (“I used to hear voices and listen to them, now I ignore them” would be an interesting data point just by itself.)
There’s really no way to summarise it. Even summarising the reason why it can’t be summarised is beyond my ability really. Even somehting like “I used to have some extremely false beliefs and now I instead have true beliefs” don’t cover it due to having helped with a bunch of other stuff to… Yea, at least as far as I can see there’s no way to do it without the gory details and much narrower search criteria, and for using an idea beyond what I personally can see someone would need to know some about it anyway, making it kinda moot. The uncertainty about most things is immense to making it all even harder to communicate.
Even my summary of why I cant summarise why I can’t summarise it is rambling.
I consider myself to have used the methods of LW to EXTREME effect. however, there is really not much to show for it since the vast majority of it is in compensating for mental illness that otherwise would make me abnormally irrational.
Actually, if LW techniques can ameliorate clinically diagnosed, organic mental illness then this is extremely interesting. Most methods can’t.
I’d say, from personal experience, that they almost certainly can. However, it’s obviously self applied and there’s no real data about it, and the whole diagnosis thing’s been and continue to be a mess and since I’ve pretty much fixed those parts they’re probably never going to show up on any official diagnosis even if/when I get proper such. Even if it could be proven that I had delusions and then didn’t, the evidence is still only anecdotal.
I’m a bit surprised at this response, if more information would be of use to you I’ll provide it. It might be, actually, if nothing else then to verify my conclusions. However, a lot of it is rather embarrassing, and a few bits probably private to, so I’d prefer not to spill my guts here in public, especially considering thinking about it tend to make me increasingly less coherent and reliable. For similar reasons it might be a good idea to, err, have me talk to someone whose long term opinion about me I care less about.
PM me with a quick description of what got fixed, maybe, never mind the gory details? (“I used to hear voices and listen to them, now I ignore them” would be an interesting data point just by itself.)
There’s really no way to summarise it. Even summarising the reason why it can’t be summarised is beyond my ability really. Even somehting like “I used to have some extremely false beliefs and now I instead have true beliefs” don’t cover it due to having helped with a bunch of other stuff to… Yea, at least as far as I can see there’s no way to do it without the gory details and much narrower search criteria, and for using an idea beyond what I personally can see someone would need to know some about it anyway, making it kinda moot. The uncertainty about most things is immense to making it all even harder to communicate.
Even my summary of why I cant summarise why I can’t summarise it is rambling.
I had trouble like this with inferential distance, describing my at-the-time Big Issue to my first psychiatrist:
Me: “I have a good life but can’t enjoy it because I’m convinced the Invisible Hand is going to snatch it away anytime now.”
Her, writing notes: “What kind of invisible hand?”
Me: short Adam Smith summary