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Originally Posted by Bitsy  Is that how he can fix himself?
How do you fix yourself if you don't know what is really wrong with you? |
From personal experience, I can tell you that knowing what's wrong with you is actually completely irrelevant to fixing yourself. You don't need to know what's wrong with you; you need to know how to fix it. These are different pieces of knowledge. Connecting them is the science of being a doctor. But if I tell you that you have cancer, that doesn't mean I can fix it. If I tell you that drinking orange juice will cure whatevertheheck you have, then I've given you useful knowledge, even if you don't understand why it works.
What he's doing is letting energy fester inside him without release and becoming poisoned by its lethargy. In social relationships, this energy is burnt and recycled through interaction and sex. Outside of that, you have to take either physical or mental action. It's not a sufficient replacement, but it's a substantial one. It has the useful, further effect of forcing him to keep himself vaguely healthy despite the poison as well as filling out both physical and mental muscles, which happens to be a good investment when you can't seem to find anything better to do with your time than mope.