People often give up on self-improvement because they underestimate the time and effort required for psychological change. — Whalespan
People often give up on self-improvement because they underestimate the time and effort required for psychological change.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“Over 20 years of, at times, being a therapist, what I've seen the most daunting, the thing that makes people just give up and go away and go back to the things that hurt bad, give up on themselves, are that it takes time. And if you think it's supposed to take two weeks, and the world around you is kind of leading you to think that, and then you go for help, and the help kind of leads you to think that whether it's two weeks or it's ten weeks, if it's going to take two years, you're going to go away disheartened.”