Even modifying to your own detrminent is self serving

"If one decides to consult a psychiatrist they are in a way expressing a desire to create a new story for themselves."

"But then if you have a story like mine, can you change it. Can you change the story that is you?"

"You can change, I suppose, by revising your story."

"But all my life I have been altering in my favour, and you know even when I modify it to my own detriment, the humility I derive is a kind of personal bonus."