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Old Nov 04, 2014, 12:47 PM
MotownJohnny MotownJohnny is offline
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That's a good question. I think that there isn't a good answer. You can find what you are looking for, but it's going to be a rare gem in a field of rocks.

This is all my opinion, so take it for what it's worth:

I don't think the mental health industry in the US has any real desire to "cure" people or even see them be reasonably functional in the real world. I think it has a great unspoken vested interest in keeping people "messed up" so they remain dependent upon expensive health practicitioners and expensive drugs. Furthermore, they treat to the most severe level, by which I mean they pretty much assume the worst-case scenario about everyone who comes through the door, no matter what the condition or the outlook. For example, when I was in a day hospital program, they talked about things like getting on disability, getting housing assistance, getting emergency assistance/shelters, etc. This was a private, for-profit large hospital, and almost everyone in there had been working and/or attending college immediately before their problems. So, to tell these people to more or less just hang it up, not even bother to try, and plan on going on the dole and sitting out the rest of your life is both stupid and cruel. Instead, they should be pushing people, hard, to do everything possible to gain back every bit of functionality they can have. There are times in life people NEED a push, and that is one situation where I think it's imperative. Because I think the thing I found the most depressing of all was the attitude of "well, it's hopeless, might as well just give up and give in" which came from the so-called "healers". If an oncologist tried that, every patient would die of cancer without ever even bothering to fight via chemo, surgery, radiation, whatever.
Thanks for this!
geis