Therapy And Introspection

Almost the whole of one's sensory experiences might be just that, subjective mental experiences that do not have anything to do with the real appearance of environments and objects, or with whether many of them even exist at all.  One's mind, on the other hand, cannot not exist as long as any perception occurs, for to perceive even an illusion requires a consciousness to do the perceiving.  Whatever thoughts, feelings, or sensory perceptions one has, these too are directly knowable because they exist within one's verifiable mind.  It is only due to the objective truth and knowability of the laws of logic that even introspection is certain, but it is indeed infallibly certain as long as one makes no assumptions and intentionally looks to logic.

With the increasing mainstream popularity of therapy, it has also become more popular to imply or outright believe that without therapy, there is no ability to know one's own mental states.  Is a person clinging to the same fallacies and attitudes of someone who harmed them?  There are people who might pretend like discussions with a therapist are necessary to identify this hypocrisy.  Is a person overcome with anger or sadness?  This, too, is knowable from introspection, as one would merely need to look within one's own mind (in a rationalistic context) to know if these emotions or attitudes are present.  It is not that therapists and therapy cannot be helpful, but that they are absolutely irrelevant to the true metaphysics and epistemology of one's consciousness.

It is the intentional avoidance of autonomous discovery or revisiting of philosophical truths that is the issue, for no one needs books or the internet or conversations, including those with therapists, to realize or focus on a great many things.  The emphasis on therapy even where it is objectively unnecessary has made it popular to deny this truth, though it is not only true that rationalistic introspection is already within the reach of every willing person, but it is also makes self-awareness far more empowering and accessible.  You can have immediate, assumption-free, financially costless access to the entirety of your emotions, desires, memories, and general perception if only you do not choose to flee from this in one way or another.

Yes, some people might be able to better focus on a certain aspect of their mind with conversational prompting, not that a therapist is specifically required for this anyway.  It is not irrational to have this disposition as long as one does not refuse or neglect that introspection, which is itself only absolutely certain because the laws of logic it relies on (as all things do) is absolutely certain, is not ultimately about social interaction of any kind.  It is about one's own mind looking within itself and seeing that which cannot be an illusion: the very metaphysical existence of one's mind and all of its immediate contents can be known and examined at any time without the need for any guidance or prompting from others.