Yes. 🖤 We can all rise above the pain. For me, the most common setback, especially recently, is a feeling of not deserving the happiness and inner peace. This is a bullshit story to tell oneself, as it's generally untrue, and it prevents us from taking positive action in life that could improve our impact on others and ourselves.

If I'm feeling guilty and nothing can be done about it, then I must move on.

But I don't feel this is your problem at all. (post-edit: remembers how close you were with your father, understands completely at least part of the problem)

I know doctors like to tell people they have a "chemical imbalance", but that shit's a made up term that doesn't even reflect what's really happening in the brain, as we're not "low on some chemicals" or "high on others", but rather our brain is stuck in a broken loop somewhere which is preventing the correct chemicals from being dispensed. But "chemical imbalance" sells drugs... to "rebalance" the chemicals, I guess?

A great way to think of it: we were once sex fluids. Our bodies and brains can turn all the goodness we consume into whatever it needs to survive, and then, hopefully, to live a happy life.

The real healing process sucks, because we don't relieve the pain, often aiming to amplify it and spend time with it to understand it instead.

But I didn't intend to go off like this under your article.

Personally, some good THC/CBD action (indica only) helps the healing process along just fine... until it doesn't, depending on the problem. If I'm upset about being an unproductive part of society, then weed makes things honestly quite a bit worse.