Posted by DaisyM on March 19, 2004, at 15:25:20
In reply to Question about insight, posted by Racer on March 19, 2004, at 11:09:08
I agree with Dinah, of course you can have insight into your own condition. Imagine a medical condition...the flu. You KNOW what the flue feels like, looks like, etc. Now most people don't really have the flu, they have some sort of stomach upset (food poisining) etc. Does it matter that they describe it as the flu, vs. some other name? We might even know what to do. But, we might be too sick to do it. We need help. Or, it is "worse" than other flus we've had before so we don't know what to do about it.
Just because you know what is wrong, or even that something feels wrong, doesn't mean you know how to make it better. This is especially true with behaviors that get entrenched. We should stop, but we can't seem to get ourselves too.
I think you have to be open to additional interpretations of things, but that doesn't make the conclusions you reach on your own wrong, or bad or useless. You do know yourself better than anyone.
I would even venture to say that what you think about your own condition is as at least as important as the condition itself.
Hope things start looking up soon.
Daisy
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