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

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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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I imagine it has to do with this important factor that you have missed.

We are unable to process our lives from a standpoint outside of our own perception.

Your subjective perception is often the problem.

People have difficulty seeing the world outside themselves accurately. Now imagine that you are trying to look inward with a lens that distorts everything.

We can not do therapy on ourselves for these reasons and we lack the training and understand to do it on others.

Given that therapists seek outsiders for therapy themselves, even if we did, it still would not be enough.

With people who have serious mental health issues, they will deny that they were ever ill when treatment is working

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