There are always a ton of various things you can do in a certain situation, but a lot of these actions are nonsense and statistically improbable or go against all basic logic, reasoning, or self preservation. If you wake up feeling sick, you technically can go and run a marathon in response but that is nonsense because we know as humans that we need rest and we need medicine to feel better, so our mind will never come up with this possibility. There are also some possible actions we can take that are nonsense regardless of the context, like picking up a fork and poking yourself. Your mind is not going to consider doing anything like this on a normal day because it’s a waste of time at best. However, you can reach higher stages of consciousness where your mind is able to determine more possible conditions and possible actions to take in your life.
Things like past trauma will hold you back from possibilities that may actually be within reach of accomplishing. It may not even be from the current lifetime. Trauma and incorrect data limits your mind’s ability for reasoning and your capacity to articulate all the possibilities that exist for you. Therapy tends to enable this by talking endlessly about feelings and coping mechanisms while never speaking about solutions or durable material actions that people can take to improve their material conditions. Coping mechanisms and emotional support has its place, but usually that’s not the only thing that can be done. Some solutions seem impossible or unlikely to work for reasons we are unable to articulate, but unless you have a specific reason in your mind for why something would not work, you should attempt it at least.
Your mind is evolved for hunter-gatherer societies where bears were possibly hiding in bushes so there is an aversion to new experiences, but the modern world is not as likely to pose existential threats for things that benefit you. These actions we may simply be nervous about since they are new to us may just result in minor inconvenience at worst. Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results, so we have to realize the same mindset that keeps us in the problem cannot be the same one we use to fix it. We must eventually think about what we are failing to do or the possible course of action we aren’t seeing or what the gods are trying to get us to realize.