| | Hi Goran,
I feel your question is way too broad to get a concise answer, but I'll try to give you my two cents and hopefully it proves helpful to your well-being. Psychological problems are pertain to your human "self"; they relate to the way your human mind handles information, and the problem may be of chemical, behavioral, degenerative nature. Insight practice will allow you to see the true reality of nature, including physical, psychological, aspects of the manifestation you call "yourself". After achieving deep insight into the true nature of those things you will realize that they really have no effect on who you truly are (hence there is a liberation from wrong perception). All the psychological problems will remain, but they would no longer be "your" problems but rather problems of a manifestation that has the three characteristics (impermanence, dissatisfactoriness, and non-self).
Here is a quick example of what I'm saying:
Imagine you have a $100,000 debt you need to pay, and it's causing you a lot of stress because you may lose your home, car, and jeopardize the future of your family, children, etc. You say to yourself "man, I am in big trouble, I'm so stressed because I may lose all these things I work so hard and dearly for, not to mention I am putting my family in a very dangerous situation, what if I lose my job on top of that? what if I get a health problem and I can't provide for them, etc" you can go on and on about all these things that describe what your conceive as "yourself" prior to getting insight into true nature. As you start to gain insight and start to experience the true nature of things, you will not only start noticing that ALL your problems, issues, situations, emotional states, have the very same 3 characteristics, you will get closer start to realize your true nature and thus realizing that none of those issues truly have an effect on you. They still affect your old "you", the one you believed for so long to be who you really are. So let's say you achieve 4th path, and now you are fully awaken, you will still owe $100,00, you may still lose your house, and have your family out in the street. The human being that has manifested and you thought it was you needs to still go ahead and deal with those situations if it wants to solve the problem he/she faces.
I imagine when you refer to "first insight" you are talking about 1st path? you will get a subtle but noticeable change on your life once you have reached it. In my experience, I still have TONS of things to take care of in this world(I mean "I" as the human manifestation, not who I really am), but now I notice that all the problems and issues that surround me do not affect me nearly the same way they used to,
in conclusion, you cannot heal psychological problems with insight, as they belong in the manifest world. You would eventually free yourself from suffering, as you gain insight into the nature of the universe and yourself.
Hope this helps!
Jorge F |