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Originally Posted by Michanne
The whole industry is geared towards identifying a "disease" and "fixing" it with medicine which doesn't do anything more than help your symptoms. I think it is much more transparent to acknowledge this and ask questions like how much of this is "irrational me" and how much is "irrational society". I suspect you'd find more of it is society than we are led to feel. Just because I am paranoid doesn't mean I am wrong 
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I don't think I agree with you here. Of course as humans we are wired to identify problems and fix them. I think medical science has done much more than just treat symptoms. There are many examples of cures in medical science. My father had a triple bypass. He would have died without it most likely. They identified a problem and went in and fixed it. They did much much more than treat symptoms. That was 20 years ago and he has lead a healthy long life and is still going strong.
One of my best friends was just successfully treated for throat cancer. So far he is cancer free. That doesn't mean it might not come back but he has a good chance to see his grand kids grow up.
Now if you are strictly talking about mental health then I would have to agree with you. They have not made much more progress than to treat symptoms. For me not even that successfully. Many people who take meds would probably strongly disagree though and say they were cured by meds.
I don't know how much hope but I do hold out some hope for "cures" for mental illness in the future. Who would have thought 30 years ago that you would be tapa talking to me about this.