"Mental own goal" is such a perfect turn of phrase. > It's a hard mental paradox to fix though, One of the things I've learned in the past year of therapy is

"Mental own goal" is such a perfect turn of phrase. > It's a hard mental paradox to fix though, One of the things I've learned in the past year of therapy is that if a mental problem is hard to fix at one level, it's usually because that problem is just an emergent symptom of a different deeper level issue. Also, you never really "fix" psychological problems, so much as grow forward into a slightly different person that both combines that problematic history and adaptations to deal with it. It's like we're weird amphibians that can't regrow lost limb, but can grow an unrelated new limb at a different location that lets us walk again.