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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Explain it like you’re 5…ok. I’m a counselor/therapist so I will do my best here.
You can do therapy “on” yourself. There are a number of books and self help guides available to help you through your hard times and your daily struggles. There are so many, that you can feel overwhelmed. They can be great resources, but only if you are looking at the right one.
Over all you are too close to your problem situation. When you seek a therapist, you are looking for a guide to help you that can talk back.
Therapists are trained in a way to present you the information you are missing. We listen to you objectively, from an outside perspective and offer directions that will benefit you and your situation the most. Some of the counseling may be completely obvious to us but outside your comfort zone of thought, and some things you may have tried before, but gave up on too soon. If you try something written in a book, but don’t get the intended out come within your expected time frame, you’ll assume it didn’t work. If you try the same thing with a therapist, they may be able to explain why it’s not working like you want, and tweak it in a way that it will.
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