I recently paid a psychiatrist $300 out-of-pocket to assess me. He refused to give me a diagnosis or medication. He said I was lonely and socially isolated and that is why I was anxious and depressed. OMG, it was so shocking to be given the responsibility to heal myself. Does that include self-parenting ? I think, yes. I figure this psychiatrist was telling me to go forth and reparent myself. Reclaim myself. Re-socialize myself. How he figured out I had the resources to do this in a one hour session I will never know. I probably shouldn't add this but in that hour we laughed. A lot. Genuinely. I liked the guy and I trusted him and I feel like he said, go free yourself. How to do that is the path of life, I guess. I actually feel much stronger since that one-hour session two months ago. That's a pretty potent healer.