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Might be worth talking to a therapist. Therapists (psychologists) can be hit or miss depending on the issue, personality matches and their competence, but I think it might have some value here. The reason for this is that you need someone competent with the ability to locate and point out your blindspot and help find the root cause.
What I'm not sure about is that I think a lot of personality traits (even extreme ones) can just be temperament related (eg your genetic personality predisposition) and they're hard to track. Coping mechanisms might be different if you can't resolve the 'root cause' because its an intrinsic part of you.
For context, I talked to a therapist once that thought that some of my traits were as a result of something that happened to me when I was 'pre-verbal' (eg an infant with no conscious memory). I've still got no idea if they were onto something, but I've gotten a hold of most of my issues as I've worked on them over time.
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