much of the recent backlash against therapy and psychiatry comes from the underlying truth that fixing ur psyche is a fundamentally individual and internal journey. this is not the case for medicine, there is little u can or should do to stitch ur own wound or cure ur own cancer. but the tools we have for repairing mental damage or enabling growth are infinitely weaker. there are no easy repeatable predefined paths, we do *not* have this figured out. professionals can and do help, but mostly as an "on-average" collective. frequently the single thing that turns out to be most impactful to an individual isn't years of therapy, but one week long road trip or a single conversation with a stranger at a train station. there is, unfortunately, no offloading of responsibility.