Why can’t we just do therapy on ourselves? Why do we need an external person to help?

Question

We are a highly-intelligent species and yet we are often not able to resolve or often even recognize the stuff going on in our own heads. Why is that?

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Answer 1

Me: “I do X but everybody does X”

My therapist: “Nope, everybody does not do X”

Me: “Huh”