I think... Ok, yeah generally you need to enlist some kind of professional help at some point to get symptoms under control, learn and utilize coping techniques, manage your life in a way that caters to your strengths and doesn't target your weaknesses, blah blah blah.

I do feel VenusHalley has a point, though the one I see may or may not be the one that was being presented initially.

When all you do is hand people so called solutions on a silver platter, they don't expect that any personal work or commitment is involved or necessary for any degree of success. So you have "Dot" [or whatever its called], the little cartoon Pfizer blob that could. Within the span of a thirty second commercial it goes from miserable and alone to smiling and surrounded by happy bird friends.

People go from sad and withdrawn peeking out a window into the rain to playing frisbee on the beach with their dog.

In advertising and in pop culture, there is little to no emphasis or even much mention at all of any type of personal work that one might need to do to improve one's mental health.
There are also many people who are just sort of passed through treatment- "helped along"- without much focus on coping skills, learning independence, self soothing, things like distress tolerance and decisions making, any basic fundamentals of HOW to work on improving your own prognosis.

And I'm not suggesting people don't attend therapy. For a lot of people though, therapy begins and ends in the therapist' s office door.

So it's like you are chained entirely to your providers, you have no way to help yourself.
We end up with people plateauing or worse because they aren't taught basic ways to help themselves or even that as an option.

Self-empowerment, as VenusHalley seems to suggest- though I don't want to put words in your mouth- is not a priority as often as it should be.

It is not often seen as cost effective, but this results in impatience with medications, poorer insight and self awareness, lower self esteem, more difficulty with provider- consumer communication, and in my humble opinion, less optimal outcomes over all.

Yeah,so... tangent.

But ya know... just sayin'
Heh.