Amen to treating symptoms! I feel like I've wasted years and a lot of money with psychotherapists who insist on bullshit root causes. Treating symptoms allows

Amen to treating symptoms! I feel like I've wasted years and a lot of money with psychotherapists who insist on bullshit root causes. Treating symptoms allows you to break the problem into smaller issues, monitor progress, change course and so on. There is no treating "root cause" -- the root cause happened dacades ago; it allows lousy psychotherapists to continue to be lousy psychotherapists. There is no way to objectively quantify the root cause and to train psychotherapists to "treat the root cause". The "treat the root cause" psychoterapies, starting with psychoanalisis are just bullshit psychotherapies, no better than the "detoxifying" and "holistic" diets.