Time does heal specific incidents. That bad breakup you had? It won't matter in 10 years. That time people were mean to you in school? You'll forget it before you're 30.

What time does not heal is ingrained patterns, the after effects of trauma. Do you have a pattern of ending up with abusive or unavailable partners? That won't just heal with time. Did your school trauma leave you with low self-esteem? That doesn't go away on its own. For this type of wounds to heal, you need to start putting in effort, going to therapy, etc.

Since our problems tend to run much deeper than the one bad episode, time is indeed a useless healer. Untreated, your wounds will just fester. So please start looking after yourself now, it is worth it in the long run I promise