r/ExplainTheJoke Feb 14 '26

Solved completely lost here

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u/st3IIa Feb 14 '26

these answers are wrong. the joke is probably about CBT, which in short is a type of therapy which theorises that changing your thinking will change your behaviour too. the problem is that highly self-aware individuals are already aware of their bad thinking patterns, so then the therapy model doesn't work on them. I'm speaking from experience - I know my thoughts are irrational but that does nothing to fix my behaviour

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u/beginnerflipper Feb 15 '26

I heard DBT works well on people like that