Neither.
Therapy can resolve some sorts of problems, but other problems (illnesses, handicaps, and so forth) are intractable to therapy, which then shifts to different goal: trying to put you more at ease with your insolvable issue(s). That is more about coping with what you have. I have no interest in learning to trudge onward through life, merely enduring.
Having both gone to a therapist as a child and worked for a few as an adult, I cannot say I have a particularly high opinion of the efficacy of therapy. Due to my health issues, the number of psychiatric medications I could take is quite limited, so the other side of that coin is also tarnished.
On a secondary note, for a number of reasons, I would rather not anyone know that my own resolution to these problems. I do not want to be held for observation, involuntarily committed, or even have to discuss this sort of thing, given that I could only receive more trite advice, which, if I somehow managed to somehow swallow, would only "reward" me with a longer period of time before my inevitable death.
