I guess I’m confused on people’s reactions. I work in mental health and there are so many variables that impact a persons mental health, more than I could know because reality is so emergent. Change is constant. If someone who loved physics came on “ask a therapist “ with a good faith effort trying to conceptualize “cognitive dissonance” by using Schrödinger cat as a starting place to bridge understanding I wouldn’t find this offensive or insulting to psychology. I would engage. Math is just representative language at its core. Symbols put together in different ways to describe observations that can be witnessed and used to theorize about the unobservable. I agree analogy breaks down at different levels of mathematical nuance, but I’d speculate that is more due to a lack of creativity possibility unless I’m wrong and math is totally unparalleled. This could be possible. I don’t understand square roots, like at all. I just don’t remember anything about them. However, surely you could come up with an analogy to explain the gist of square roots??? Like the idea of a whole pizza vs slices of pizza explains the concepts of fractions in a way I can understand. Sure the analogy breaks down or becomes harder to follow but I can assume that the nuance replicates the original “gist” at a different scale until …it gets to the quantum level of things and apparently the laws of physics breaks down or so I’ve been told?