Having a lifetime's worth of (close 3rd party) experience with psychologists/psychiatrists (including famous pindi walay), local and foreign, and also having had experience with others in the 'religious' realm, and also being a healthcare professional, and having looked at the ground realities most people won't tell you because they probably aren't cognizant of them anyway - I'll tell you that you can help yourself more by just using your head, and wreck yourself by blindly accepting whatever half-baked mumbo jumbo a "professional" throws at you.
Those who actually know this realm also know that we as doctors know less about proper workings of the human mind than say, a vehicle. The brain is, after all, the most complex design - in itself one of the signs that we Just Don't Know enough to go tinkering with it with quick fixes that people are accustomed to in this age. Pop a pill for this, pop another for that. Experience and evidence shows (except to the intellectually blind) that most cases of mind problems are not and cannot be resolved a true resolution - a resolution where there is no lifetime of pill dependency.
If you want a short answer: the brain is designed to act up when something deeper isn't right. Anxiety, depression, hopelessness, and such states are to the human being what a a check engine light is for a vehicle and a forced shutdown is for an overheating machine - they're warning signs - they warn so you can take corrective measures before deeper & greater damage happens.
Too often people only try and fix these superficial warning signs. Over the ages people have used various quick fixes to 'fix' sadness or emptiness such as alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, binge eating, sex, excessive power/control assertion etc etc. These will give you a fix for a little while but will not solve your underlying problem; people often start out on the mild side and end up killing themselves -slowly from severe side effects or suicide.
Prescription of drugs for anxiety and other such issues have long been abused in the west by "professionals"; if you want to, do read the latest literature on that - though these were my conclusions before literature caught up with this portion of reality. You can only imagine what might be the case in Pakistan where everything is kosher...
Officially, such prescription drugs a.k.a. psycho meds are only for stabilisation of an extreme & acute condition so that counselling and lifestyle change can take place; in reality, all will put you on this pill or that pill and you will be left to wreck your life with secondary effects that ain't so pretty - counselling be damned.
Counselling is a fancy word for "let's explore your life, find a few bad beliefs & bad habits and things you're not doing right, reaffirm things you are doing right, and change the way you think to the right way of thinking so you can change the way you do things that has set off this failsafe and so you can effectively turn off this human safety alarm called xyz".
All of this can only happen if you actually know what ways of thinking, which beliefs, and what kinds of actions lead to what kinds of results, so that you can adopt only those ways of thinking, beliefs & actions that lead to all-things-good. Thats why you want a psychoDoc because you think he knows these, you think he knows so he can tell you the solution. How would he know? He's only human, and then there are the (dismal) results that speak -more like scream- for themselves.
If on the other hand you could do a longitudinal study of human behaviour that spanned a hundred centuries, and the subjects observed were many many billions - all of humanity would be great - you'd be in the best position to tell what ways of thinking, what beliefs & what kinds of resultant actions lead to what kind of results.
Unfortunately we do not have access to such a treasure trove of information. That info would indeed make the greatest psychologist of all time...
More on that later. Ponder over it. If you can digest and absorb this, you are on your way to solving your problems. If not, well let's not go there - read it again - and PONDER 
