"improving would require you to reckon with it being your fault in the first place."

Personal responsibility obsession.
Has to make the conversation about personal responsibility and weakness, when it's not relative at all to the specific topic being discussed.
Conservative self-report.

Oh, absolutely worse. A puppet with his arm hole eagerly gaping. A Palantir golem. A homunculus of diet mountain dew, bologna, and total lack of character. I believe carrion animals would instinctively know not to eat him.