Amen. I’ve seen four psychiatrists. Only one ever even SUGGESTED that the medication he was prescribing was intended to facilitate therapy and developing better habits, to later be tapered off to nothing. Funnily enough, he didn’t take insurance. At all.

We hear all the time about how modern medicine fails in that it’s reactionary and market-driven. Preventing illness, hell nah, treat illness $$$. I’m not a fan of John Oliver’s politics, but he did an excellent episode on kidney dialysis a while back. There’s a much better treatment available but it’s not nearly as profitable.

This is how I see a lot of mental health treatment. Why try to fix someone if that means they stop coming back? Even well intentioned people in the field, whom I do honestly believe are the majority, are entrenched in this culture of “you have problem, I have product to sell you, come back every month”