My original point was that the MH system trains us to believe that our problems in living are medical disorders that require treatment, rather than self-care. It's a baseless concept. Whether the system's purported treatments help some is another thing entirely. Now we are getting into complex questions about the way individual people heal, the power of the mind, and all the confounding variables.

I don't see how calling therapy a "treatment" makes much sense. I understand that talk therapy might be helpful, in that a positive interaction with another person is helpful, but calling it treatment suggests, again, some sort of medical model.