>>937291465I think therapy addresses the parts of your minds that are contending with itself,
>I don't feel good about myself so I don't deserve to feel better.It's not a "deserving" thing like your brain tells you, it's more like a state. Non-depression that is. Alleviating it isn't so much a rite of passage as much as a medical issue.
Maybe going to a psych ward can compensate as some sort of "process" that appeases the psyche so that it has earned it's chemical alleviation.
But that's all romantic nonsense depression ruminates on because it's fundamentally a scientific issue that is caused by your brain chemistry.
Do we understand the full mechanisms underlying depression? No, we're still learning a lot about the mind and brain. But we do know enough on how to be effectively treated and rehabilitated. Which is a process.
The field has come a long way since lobotomies and Freud, yet culture hasn't caught up yet.