The best mental health professionals are not scientists who offer precise, empirically objective diagnoses but students of the human heart and soul. They do not provide a taxonomy and rational explanation for your suffering but intuit with wisdom and compassion. They attend to you personally. By grace they may sketch out the contours of your suffering, but sometimes little more than that. They offer a sympathetic ear, wise advice, and ameliorating treatments, but only rarely something like a medical cure. Psychiatrists can sometimes prescribe a medication that helps lessen your suffering, but
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