[donthurtme]

> I'm not very trusting of less scientific advice (as therapy is oft to recommend).

Science can't provide all the answers; in fact the goal of science isn't even to explicitly provide "advice" for anything. It's simply a tool we use to understand the natural world better.

Nor is the goal of therapy to provide advice. You don't go in there, tell them all your problems, and they tell you what to do. You might find that the experience is very different than your expectation of it – hopefully more helpful.

When it comes to human happiness, I think you'll find that abandoning logic in some instances is the best path toward fulfillment. I don't know if you are religious or hold spiritual beliefs (you don't have to be to be happy), but it's not difficult to see that many people who DO hold beliefs that aren't "scientific" per se can also be very fulfilled. If your goal is fulfillment, or meaning, or finding a better center for yourself, it may help to open your mind a little bit and accept that not all human problems have scientific explantations.