Ask HN: Are drastic changes to our personality and thought process possibe?

[cypherofreal1ty]

Do you think it is possible to make changes to one's actions, behaviour, personality, mannerisms and thought process that make them unrecognizable to their past self?

I feel that i have not grown at all as a person and everything about me is the same since i was a child but i cannot continue this way. How do i go about molding myself so that my thought and cognitive processes and every other aspect of my personality is altered significantly?

[illuminant]

Yes, absolutely. How? Difficult to recommend.

It certainly takes time and persistence.

We are creatures of habit. The only way to change is by breaking and making new habits.

[reify]

What you are talking about is the changes possible through long term psychotherapy.

Not unrecognisable but more accepting of who you are.

[cypherofreal1ty]

How longterm is it on average? Because i cant live with the person i am :(

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

Hopefully my ADHD meds will make me unrecognizable to my past self, or else I'm getting ripped off