I am with you and your POV (or perhaps my POV is a bit different?) in that I wonder how much of our "mental illness" is caused by trauma and not accepting people's differences including allowing people to be theirselves including some harmless behaviors (some are harmless and some are not) that mental illnessness like schizophrenia cause. My understanding (and experience) is that if you too heavily medicate, we become zombies unable to accomplish anything. The mind is a complicated thing. I wonder if having some mania, psychosis, and other symptoms might help some people eventually accomplish something? Perhaps these states could give some great insight? Though there is a place for psych drugs when these symptoms cause real problems.....