Dr. Paul Conti

If you don't, okay, how were you after that?

How were you between then and military-related trauma?

I want to understand you as best I can because that's going to be the route to finding solutions to this.

And you realized...

That this what's wrong with me diagnostic paradigm was getting you nowhere.

So you leaped across the chasm to say, hey, how about I bring curiosity to myself, compassionate curiosity, not beat myself up.

What's wrong with me?

Curiosity, but real curiosity.

And it sets you down a path of understanding yourself better and making your life healthier.

Yes.

Yes.

I think the example you're giving of your own life is a beautiful, it's a beautiful example.

You got yourself to a healthier place because you realized I need to understand myself and I need to understand what is this story I'm telling myself.

Right, and how am I telling myself this story?

Am I saying to myself over and over again, you're not enough, you're not enough, you're not good enough, what's wrong with you?

If that's my dialogue to myself, maybe in those words or in similar words, how am I ever gonna understand anything?

But I painted myself into a corner here and I need to stop and look at what it is that I've done.

Why are these voices in my head?

They're not the voices of your own, your own thoughts.

Right.