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We've been talking about talk therapy and meds as ways of helping us with whatever problems we're having.  I can't help but wonder, if our brains can, so to speak, "get us into these messes"- create these problems, and linger in us with these problems, shouldn't our brains alone be able to fix it?  I keep thinking that something external can happen-something outside ourselves, but the way we react, and the way we feel- I think that's in our brains. And, if our brains can create these reactions- whether or not the brain has free will to choose which reactions it wants- I wonder whether or not it too has the ability to heal itself without outside help.  How can it create something, without having a way to undo it?  It seems that if therapy and meds were always needed to fix whatever the brain had caused, then, evolutionarily, we'd be at a huge disadvantage, because what if these things were not available? And, I guess, to some people, they aren't- the people who can't afford these things, and I know people suffer, but I just find it hard to believe that we don't have the ability to will ourselves to get better.