Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog painting by Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1818 If you have spent years in therapy, coaching, or self-help loops, you might be familiar with a frustrating pattern: you learn the tools, you practice the reframing, yet a persistent sense of internal friction remains. Many people navigate mental health care in receipt of partial answers—diagnoses like MDD or GAD that treat moments of distress while missing underlying brain architecture. This is not a fa