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NLP or rather... BS?

For full disclosure, I am not an expert in this matter, I have been seeing a therapist for some time in the past (who hasn't?) and psychiatrist for some pharmacological help (I like to call it "happy candy"). I am a big supporter of therapy, psychoanalysis, as I know from my experience, it helped me. I will not say it will definitely be the best way to help everyone, people work in different ways. But there is one thing that I will always say is a big stack of BS: NLP.  Neuro linguistic programming to me is nothing more than just wishful thinking. How do you expect to change your life and behavior, truly, for long term, simply by telling yourself what you want and what you should do to accomplish your goal? Let's not forget that most of the people have some limitations which are a direct result of their underlying emotional trauma, their defense mechanisms. They might not even be aware of it but in certain situations, the defense mechanism kicks in and without knowing...
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Master of myself

We learn everyday, from everyone. But it's our choice what we learn and from whom. Unfortunately it's not so simple when we are kids or even teenagers, we get heavily influenced by our parents and peers. This is why we need to be aware at some point who we are, who we are becoming, what's good, what's wrong and who do we want to be. I'm not talking about a specific career path, I'm taking about the kind of human being we want to become, what will we value. My father was (and probably still is, I don't talk to him) the biggest asshole I have ever met in my life. Or one of the biggest. Anyway, he's a racist prick. He always used nasty words to describe people of color with which I did not agree but was scared to say anything because he also had a very bad temper. So he tried to raise me as a racist too. Good for me, I have a brain of my own and occasionally use it so I figured out that it doesn't matter where are you from or what God/Gods do you believ...
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Predestination in social class?

 I have friends all over the world, I'm probably not a very sociable person there is but I do have some people who are close to me, one of them is my best friend whom I've never seen in real life since we met online. But I'm a child of two immigrants, who was born in country A, raised in country B, and as adult, I decided to go back to country A for personal reasons (grandparents and family members). During my life I have observed a lot and one of the things was the difference between social structures based on wealth. My parents worked very hard and did their best (well, mostly my mom) to give me the best future but now as I look back, it wasn't really possible to achieve. I went to the best school in the city along with the rich kids, it did cost my parents a lot of money and me... My mental health. It didn't matter to anyone that I was smart and on top of my class in my previous school. I was bullied by the kids AND some of the teachers (including the vice princi...
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