> People wondering, why I spend over a decade of my life obsessed with self help content.

> The same people wondering, how is it possible, that I somehow managed to get through all the trauma with next to no obvious symptoms.

Gee, I wonder why. And to be honest, my main issue is mainly just how insanely vilified the concept of self help actually is. Whenever I hear it mentioned, it is either "They are all trying to scam you out of all your money", or worse "muh alpha men".

I don't get it. Why is it so wrong, that "12 rules for life is only repeating the most common sense topics" when noone is actually living up to them? The point is to make you question aspects of your life, and inspect if you can fix them. Yet, so many people get triggered to rage from the suggestion.

@LukeAlmighty when I was young my mother gifted me a translation of the intro text for Yukio Mishima's Tate No Kai (Shield Society) because it was in the selfhelp section and had a very amenable title.
As a result I do not resent the genre, but the 'Secret(tm)' still was an annoying fad.
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I couldn't possibly call The Secret a self help book, since it is purely about magic and universe manipulation. Therefore, it falls under "esoteric literature", and that entire section is a crime against humanity :

Yes, burning books is a good thing

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