Do it the other way; you'll be better and then you won't need the symptom-habits and they'll drop away. Trust me; had a "bad" one from when I was 2, "the" symptom that took me to therapy 1970-2005. Keep looking as long as you "can"/need to to support the little girl; it's like saying "stop crying, you have nothing to cry about" to someone who is depressed, to take it away.