So much of it is garbage. I think the hopes and potential prospects that lead the reader to the self-help section have them already so optimistic that they may temporarily blind themselves for these 300 page "best sellers", not that that isn't a reasonable psychology.

Very long time ago, one of my treks for those miracle answers had me in the Scientology section. This was ca 1990, so it's been awhile, and that group was pretty popular at the time (now I have no idea and could not care less). I bought one, it wasn't Dianetics or whatever, but somehow it seemed to posses a certain appeal. Oh how quickly that faded into its true content of empty, meaningless jargon.

I'll apologize to any Scientologists as soon as they can explain it with an ounce of reason. I guess, according to them, I'm now worse than doomed, which oddly enough pleases them, pretty much sums up what they are about, and admittedly doesn't exactly displease me. We'll call it a simple "agree to disagree".

I really didn't mean to get into that specific org (pun?), but was just recalling a self-help event from the past. If it works for them, wonderful. Those I encountered in California had given nearly everything they owned over to their church, were clearly anything but happy, and I sure could elaborate.