Dr. Christof (Christoph) Koch

It requires a lot of work.

It doesn't come sort of for free, right?

And

At the end of the day, I'm still left, let's say, with my traumatic memory, but now I can realize, okay, I had this bad experience, but it doesn't have to define me.

I can go on past it, and there are various ways we can talk about that this can be achieved.

Absolutely.

I do believe in the malleability of the human mind.

even in older people.

In almost every condition you can, but maybe except for the most extreme, you can change your outlook on life.

If you really want to, that's one issue.

It's a little bit of trying to convince somebody who's an alcoholic that they should stop drinking until they have the realization, okay, I don't want to land in the gutter anymore.

I don't want to wake up at 8 a.m.

in the morning drunk outside my house.

I want to change.

Then you can change.

And, you know, 2,000 years of therapies, of all sorts of things, you know, take alcoholic anonymous, right?

The first thing you do, you have to recognize that I am an alcoholic.

And then I can begin.

Before I do that, there isn't really a hope.

But once I do that, I can change.