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Feb. 19th, 2006 12:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumI'm hooked on Loveline reruns.
I think I've been listening to them too much, in fact. It's just too fascinating listening to the hosts suss out callers so consistently. Realizing how predictable human behavior really is, makes me all the more ashamed that I'm so bad at predicting it myself.
On the other hand, it took Adam and Dr. Drew years of phone calls to be able to read the voices of callers the way they do, not to mention the additional decade of life experience Adam has, and the medical and psychological training Drew has, that give them the ability to not only spot problems, but find solutions. And their most common advice is either "get into therapy" or "get into a twelve-step," which have the common element of external help from other human beings, for the specific reason that self-diagnosis is dangerous, and people who are in trouble need the guidance of people who aren't in as much trouble.
Because people routinely fool themselves about themselves.
I think I've been listening to them too much, in fact. It's just too fascinating listening to the hosts suss out callers so consistently. Realizing how predictable human behavior really is, makes me all the more ashamed that I'm so bad at predicting it myself.
On the other hand, it took Adam and Dr. Drew years of phone calls to be able to read the voices of callers the way they do, not to mention the additional decade of life experience Adam has, and the medical and psychological training Drew has, that give them the ability to not only spot problems, but find solutions. And their most common advice is either "get into therapy" or "get into a twelve-step," which have the common element of external help from other human beings, for the specific reason that self-diagnosis is dangerous, and people who are in trouble need the guidance of people who aren't in as much trouble.
Because people routinely fool themselves about themselves.
