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I really believe the state of mental health is bad shape right now. The difference between mentally sound and mentally ill is still completely subjective, except in the case of the most obvious and severe disorders. I don't have any faith in the field at all. The solution is almost always to throw buckets of medicine at the problem, and the psychotropic drugs prescribed usually have very major symptoms. I don't support the drug culture that exists in either the mental health field or the regular field of medicine.
I often wonder what proportion of people given the drugs actually have any mental health issue at all. Look how prevalent drugs for anxiety or depression alone have become. I can barely believe they can even prescribe medicine to fix something that might be causing the problem. After all this time, they still can't tell us what causes most major forms of mental illness? It's sure not stopping them from shoving pills at people as the first line of treatment. As mentioned above, even general practitioners are getting in on the action, and they are not qualified to diagnose or treat mental illness.
I hope I see some major reforms in this are during my life time.
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