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

1 points by cypherofreal1ty ↗ HN
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?

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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.

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