Yeah, I really like the "Bandaid Analogy". I would take it a little further:

The OP is a bandaid that temporarily covers up a deep hurt, but can not heal it. At the beginning, the bandaid is shiny and new. Before long, it gets brown and icky and peels around the edges, until it finally falls off - to reveal that the hurt is still there, unhealed. Healing must come from within.

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