Also how the fuck are people lucid at 6 am
Yes you do. Therapy, whether it be CBT, DBT, commitment and acceptance therapy or EMDR, is evidence based. That means therapy’s a science. Just like the analogy about how to fix a broken bone is an evidence based science. It’s underpinned by decades of research.
I’ve worked with hundreds of addicts alongside professional NHS therapists and if you mean to say this is hocus pocus whimsy, it definitely 1000% isn’t. These people committed to effect wholesale change in their lives and most would be flabbergasted to learn that therapy gave them little to no insight. It gave them their lives back.
Wiggle it anyway you want, this is the evidence baseline. Of course it would be better to have everything on the NHS, but that’s another problem entirely. Equally, if your dealing with narcissistic personality disorders or psychosis, then therapy isn’t always appropriate - antipsychotic medication will be though.