i've benefitted from therapy to help me outgrow behaviors that were self-defeating. in that sense i've "outgrown" some of my problems. but i also think this same solution helped me "resolve" the problems too.
my having this viewpoint contradicts jung's opinion.
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours..~Ayn Rand
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