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by NoMoreNicksLeft 4067 days ago
> Understanding how your thoughts are distorted can better prepare you

The trouble is that anyone with profound issues no longer has the capacity for extreme metacognition.

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Put the problem the other way around and you will have a wonderful project. Just saying.

Extreme metacognition, like getting yourself out-of-trouble? Given anybody in front of problem tailored for them to fail, they will fail. How much people are not good citizen? More or less than crazy people? Both kind of people harm themselfs. We call only one “crazy”. We call crazy people “crazy” because we don't know how to let them be back and explain in plain text what's harming them.

People study crazy people not only because it's “easy” to extract knowledge and models, but because it's the “good thing”.

“Crazy” is a term you probably don't want to use when referring to mental health and/or patients/sufferers.
You're right. We are not a substitute for therapy in cases like this. Pacifica works very well for people with mild to moderate anxiety, but in the more extreme cases (e.g. OCD, PTSD), it is necessary to be working with a professional. But a lot of people experience anxiety on a daily basis while maintaing a capability for self analysis.
It's [worse|better] than that, they have improved cognition capacity.