From a Washington Post column by Christopher W.T. Miller headlined “3 skills from psychotherapy that can change your brain”:

When I suggested talk therapy to one of my psychiatry patients, he asked, “How can talking help?”

Diagnosed with an anxiety disorder as a child, he told me he had a “chemical imbalance” that required psychiatric medications for the rest of his life. He had heard this message over and over from doctors, parents and teachers.