Why psychotherapy?

Many people see psychotherapy as an unnecessary luxury, or even worse, a self indulgent addiction. If you do a quick scan of history’s psychopaths and sociopaths, you will discover that those most in need of help tend not to get it. So why then, does the profession of psychotherapy exist, and what possible use can it be to society?
If we consider that the human species is developing and adapting to mind numbing technological changes at a rate so fast that we only see the present moment in the rear-view mirror, we can understand the great surge of visits to mental health facilities. Panic and anxiety disorders are on the rise, which is is a manifestation of fear. Many people cannot voice the cause of the fear, and may not even be aware that they have low levels of constant preoccupations, but these subconscious and subliminal emotions can rule one’s life, and consequently have a grave societal impact. When there are large numbers of people harboring deep levels of subliminal fear, there is a high possibility of societal manipulation. The obvious example of this is the government’s use of terrorists alert and red-flagging of levels of danger, which keeps the populace at a constant level of subliminal terror. Terrorized people will do what they’re told. This is working on a basic instinctual level of survival.
So why psychotherapy? Is it possible to have some control over these unconscious, subconscious, or even conscious emotions? Can we be the author of our own destinies?
The answer is yes.
The goal of psychotherapy is to realize an internal state of equilibrium. This may seem like a superficial or easy state to achieve. But if one were to look at ones own internal state, it can be rather like taking a microscope into the rain-forest: the more carefully you look at it, the harder it is to grasp what is really going on. Equilibrium is an easy goal. The means to reach it involves tough personal work. The above example of having a “CODE ORANGE” level of danger in your psyche for the majority of the day, can mean that 95% of your energy swims around with low levels of anxiety, while only 5% of your mind is concentrating on the task at hand.
Psychotherapy makes the unconscious conscious, makes the subliminal submerge, makes the discomfort of powerful emotions tolerable. No system in physics can achieve equilibrium if opposing forces are not stablized. When we go up against ourselves, we are resisting some of the most powerful forces in nature: the power of innertia. Psychotherapy makes us stop doing what we’re doing to oppose our own evolution towards happiness. That which we are conscious about, we have to be accountable to. Once we are no longer ruled by untenable emotions, we can make decisions to change. And this is how societies change and evolve. Personal change brings about a societal change, as systems that are changing from the inside cannot remain stagnant.