It happens to me when I have to study something new. I wasted so much time trying to find the perfect note-taking method, the perfect memorization method, debating digital vs paper notes, spaced repetition, blah blah blah. I find myself thinking that doing a slovenly job at learning would have been more productive that spending so much time "learning how to learn" to use the buzzwords du jour.

I find much more toxic all this comments that dismiss the importance of the environment - intended as everything not genetic, socioeconomic status, for example - and basically suggest that if you can't fix yourself is your fault. I've met really a lot of people who cannot afford to live off grid: they have responsibilities, people that depend on them, rent to pay and so on. Even if not rich, going off grid is definitely a privilege, one that I wish I had.

I've lost 40 kg (88 lbs) just by exercising: never counted calories, lots of pizzas and whatever. When people say "you can't exercise out of a bad diet" my first question is "What do you mean by "exercise?". And then you discover that exercise in their mind is 30 minutes of brisk walking, 3 days a week and nothing more. That's not exercising, that a sedentary lifestyle.

I agree. If I could rewind time I would do Medicine, at least my work would have some positive value instead of being neutral at best.

Maybe in the US is different but where I am the self reported preparation times for medical exams are lower than that of a Physics/Math/Engineering exam: if I recall correctly Physics was at the top, then Math, then various Engineering disciplines (but not all, maybe CE was an exception), then Medicine.

Edit: Obviously things change in the actual job.

I agree. Whenever someone has tried this approach with me the result has always been me shutting down and avoiding to confide in that person. I am already tough in myself, that's why I always feel like a failure, I don't need this kind of stupid anime protagonist motivational speech bullshit.

I must one of the few people that loved the grammatical-translation method and hated the "communicative" method. I had to learn English in a "communicative-centric" fashion and it was a torment: it was all memorizing useless sentences like "What is your name?" "What is your favorite color?" and then recite back with the teachers and classmates. After 11 years I couldn't even read Harry Potter while after 2 years of Latin Grammar I could read whatever author I was pleased with and had no more need to mentally translate.

There's also the fascination with the forbidden. I've met many people that started smoking as teenagers because it made them "transgressive".

Give the possibility of having comments in chronological order.

>Seems you're overconfident that therapy and drugs aren't the solution to mental health problems

And seems like mental health professionals are overconfident that their methods work. And the evidence that they do is weak, especially for the talk therapy.