Shamanic initiation and good mental health

There is a deep human need to make over one's self-image in a mirror of moral perfection.

Then, you realise that the dirt of life IS life itself -- and then you kind of go into a state of shock and then you recover from that and you are much healthier -- less in need of defending oneself against others on a psychological level and more capable of doing it on a practical level.

And I think I have just described one outcome of shamanistic initiation, at least as it was for me.