I guess that since the cause for distress has already been passed when it occurred, the short cut solution is to treat the symptons, because time can not be rewound. Since medicin has been tested it’s supposed to have a clear outcome/ while talks have an unknown and are more expensive. Unless the situation did not cause supposed brain damage, it is treated with talks and their results can also be foretold in many cases, so the division between the two is not as sharp as suggested.

The only way to go around medicine, is to prevent it. When there are general situations that usually lead to psychological distress, they should be known and registred, so anybody in these situations can foretell his/her own symptons, and by advise influence them into the wanted outcome. I presume this could be a form of using logarithmics as in digital internet applications. It just has not been mapped out yet and needs collaberation. Just as in recognizing situations early, which is probably the hard part.

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