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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Can a psychologist cure her-/himself if he/she has a mental illness?

Sorry, this might be a stupid question. But medical doctors for example could cure themselves if they have a disease.
gpt
Not really. You can for example come up with a behavioral excercise to help yourself somehow but it's not anything somebody with a good self-help book couldn't do as well. We're also kinda trained in introspection which should theoretically help us getting an insight on our conditition. However, if we're talking about "curing", a crucial part of therapy is therapeutic relationship and alliance which is hard to establish by yourself.