I think it depends on how you are identify the "problems" if you think something is a specific type of glitch/bug/problem and treat it as such [say shortage in the hard wiring] , but it turns out there is a different problem [the box of fuses you keep replacing from is bad], then yeah you are constantly treating the problem, and treating it CORRECTLY, but you aren't treating the right problem.

You get some short term results because you treat symptoms, but you aren't actually treating the correct root of the problem.

I went on like this for over a decade. We were assigning most of my symptoms to bipolar, and though most of my therapists admitted that I had "OCD traits", none delved very deep into that. Since OCD is difficult to talk about in full, particularly Pure OCD, nothing ever fully came to light until I was in an IOP- at 27 or 28, though I'd been experiencing full blown symptoms off and on since my older childhood.

Everything had been attributed to bipolar.

I have some spikes in OCD now, but generally I am not terribly plagued by it when I have it undercontrol. The under control thing actually happens because we are treating it as OCD, not as paranoid whatever related to bipolar.

i mean i'm just using my experience as an example, but it is possible that at some point you should have branched off left instead of right?