Professionals -- More of the Problem

One of AA's traditions mentions professionals:
 

Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our

service centers may employ special workers.

The professionals in this world cause more problems than the fix.

The biggest issues is our fascination, our fixation with ourselves. We keep insisting to ourselves that if we try a little harder, if we do a little more, the day will come when we get an "A" for living out the life that is listed in the Ten Commandments, the Twelve Traditions, or any other system based on merit.

Paul cuts away at such sappy sophistry:

whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?" (Galatians 4: 9)

"Weak and beggarly elements" refers to "the basics" or "the ABCs", the simple, kiddie stuff. Believers in the Body of Christ are full-grown Sons, and thus have no further need for a tutor (Galatians 3: 24)

Professionals want to explore the thoughts and feelings of clients, all the more turning them in on themselves, defining them according to a bunch of labels which provide job security for the "professional" as opposed to life and liberty and healing for the person mired in his own mind.

How many "professionals" have  I spoken with in my life? How many of these "social workers" have stepped into the lives of individuals whose preoccupation with themselves invites all the depression, anger, fatigue, and other mental issues which no one can escape from?

I think that psychiatry, unless a discernible biological disorder can be determined, should be scrapped of state funding. The government chooses to put people on medications just to slow them down, when the real issue falls on the preoccupation that men and women have with themselves, with their thinking, with their circumstances.

The problem is so easy to solve, if we just stop putting ourselves on the regressive pedestal of trying to make ourselves OK by our own standards, whether in thought and feeling, whether by word or deed.

AA  is just  a part of the problem, with the state courts or federal agencies pressuring people into programs which put the focus on oneself instead of drawing man out of himself and toward the very God who gave Himself so that every need would be met, and thus no further need to busy oneself about oneself.