Someone starts therapy because they can’t sleep. They learn breathing techniques, adjust their bedtime routine, and maybe even try a meditation app. For a while, things improve. But a few months later, the insomnia creeps back, or it shapeshifts into something else entirely: irritability, trouble concentrating, a vague sense of dread that settles in every Sunday evening. The surface-level fix helped, but it didn’t hold. This is a pattern that plays out constantly in mental health care, and it raises a question worth sitting with: what happens when people only treat the symptoms?… Read more