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Dec 16, 2010, 08:57 PM
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Member Since: Dec 2003
Location: Coram Deo
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Originally Posted by SophiaG
Do you think that there are some people, that no matter how hard they try to get better, they can't, not because they don't want to, just because, they lack whatever it is needed to change.
Whenever someone says "they have to want to change." in response to someone that has a mental illness, I want to say to them "but what if inherently they cant change?
I've watched several episodes of intervention and it's absolutely heartbreaking when at the end of an episode you learn that the person has relapsed and has fallen back into their old ways...
Do you believe that some people just truely can't change? Even if they have the best psychotherapist, psychotherapy, combination of drugs ect.
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IMO if a person is able to "try" then they are able to learn in some measure. While I believe there are those who "can't", they are the ones who cannot because of some dysfunction in the brain, etc.
I don't watch "intervention" but have seen similar programs and find that those people are not really making the choice to change, but are hoodwinked into going through the motions.
Others here have talked about how they get up and fall down and get back up, and those who regularly call the support lines...healing is a process that most people want to go faster, or at some other person's urging.  It doesn't work that way. What may have taken 30 years to create may take 30 years to undo.
TC
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