As far as being left with one's own mind goes, the biggest barriers and obstacles to facing oneself is fear and guilt. In our psychiatric discourse, fear is described as "anxiety" and is medicated, and guilt is described as "trauma" and "PTSD" and is subject also to medications and EMDR and CBT.
Guilt, though, is a fundamental existential awareness that we have separated ourselves from our Transcendent Source and that Source will punish us for our egotistical belief that we can be the author of our own lives. This fear of punishment for our separation contributes to all kinds of psychiatric symptoms, the greatest of which is the feeling of being victimized for whatever reasons we can conjure up to blame others for our unhappiness.
In AA people are encouraged to face themselves in the fourth step which few people do unless they are interested in actually working the twelve step program.
Peace, which we all yearn for, is based on facing ourselves and joining once again with our Transcendent Source whatever we conceive that Transcendent Source to be. Psychotherapists are walking with people as we all go home.
