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Originally Posted by eskielover
I always need to understand how things work in order to learn something. That was my problem with calculus in college. I just got through it but never understood the concepts.....so never learned it.
I think that my psychologist teaching how the brain functions was why I really learned the DBT besides working on it for 2 intense years. It just became a part of me at that point.
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Ooh! Thanks for posting this - I think I'm a little like this too. I was just thinking about this today re: therapy. Therapy has been awful for me and not helpful (just ended it with another therapist) - but if I had a therapist who could actually talk intelligently about how the brain is functioning and processing things, in a way that helped me make sense of what feels like "craziness", I think it would go a LONG way in making things work better (I think I'd trust them more, listen to them more, maybe be willing to try more things, understand better what things are making me better vs worse, etc.)
Thanks for posting!
Ah, and regarding the question - I do feel like I learn in different ways. I think I'm more "audio-oriented" (I tend to hear myself think) rather than visual. I like to understand concepts, how things work, and be able to interact with them. And, I think that there's a physical component that can help too - I'm studying Russian on Duolingo right now, and really struggled with remembering the letters/words, until I started picking a couple words and writing them out (over and over) by hand. It seemed to set them better in my brain than just seeing them on the computer or trying to type them.
Brains are fun!