Why Is There No Cure??

Are we just tragically defected for life?? I've heard the speech medicine helps, and therapy but it seems no matter what i do, im never GREATLY or fully better.

I agree. Why can't they just run a diagnostic like they do for my car and then tell me how to fix it??

Because, like with every illness we can treat, companies make far more money treating people for their whole lives as opposed to curing them. Making money is more important than curing disease. Sorry.

I almost forgot that medicine is a multi-billion dollar a year business How could I be so stupid? You are absolutely right Umbral _Seraph. The powers that be only care about money not helping. Let's face it in some office somewhere under lock and key is probably the cure for cancer but we'll never know because curing something is a one time payoff.

100% true 100% of the time
the drug and food administration want to keep us hooked on needing pills
iff you have a headache take a pill
if you have a gut ache take a pill
if you are down in the dumps take a pill

we are ill because they have made us that way and we have fallen into their trap
when i became a vegan 2 years ago almost all my illness's went away
now im back to eating everything i know i chouldnt and back to taking pills to feel better



i know better but here i am still eating and taking the lies they have stuffed in my face... all i have to do is to turn on the tv and there they are over and over again... same thing with the internet.... lies and more lies... and wejust sweep it under the rug like its not true or happening

When will we WAKE UP!!!

How did your illness just go away??

Would be nice to have a cure. Since every ones Mental illness is so unique I don't think there will ever be a cure.

I do agree about big pharma..( boo hiss) I do think everyone needs to be proactive about there treatment and deciding what medications you are willing to take.

Our diet can have a huge impact on how we feel.

Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging - Full Movie (Documentary)

I like this documentary!!

^ That documentary might have some motives to be wary of.

I understand the frustration of wishing it would leave you alone and give you your life back.

There's a lot of chronic illnesses out there that we don't have cures for yet--some common, treatable ones: asthma, diabeties, thyroid disfunction, other hormonal disorders. You can treat the symptoms but not the mechanism that causes the disease so if you stop treatment, it returns. It sucks and forces us to make trade off about side effects and potential long-term damage. I don't think the base knowledge about mental illness existed long enough for there to be a cure.

Yeah, pharm. companies make a ton of money, lobby the government, selectively show studies that portray them in a better light. We're not going to (easily) know the truth about psychotropic drugs because of capitalism. People make profits from stuff; that's how our society works. (on a side not, chronic illness tend to get more common and worse as society "advances" because of industrialization, increased competition, etc. so if you are unlucky enough to fall into that catagory, you really get screwed twice). It's our individualistic, profit-based society's fault.

Pharm. companies won't let go of their profits easily, but there are researchers, activists and ordinary people who care. There will be significant strides in the treatment and care of mental illness in our lifetime.

i think brains are so complicated and so unique that it would be hard to make an amazing cure for everyone and everything. it would be nice though...