Mental health diagnosis in the U.S. and abroad

[Beautifulsky]

I am ultimately a client to a psychiatrist, a pharmacist, and to the pharmaceutical industry. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia which is not very well understood in research. When I search online for a cure, there is no documentation of the cure. There's no cure it says. So, doctors fail to understand the answer to alleviating this condition. I can't help but realize that the medical industry complex is making all this money off of vulnerable sick patients who have little rights and hope for a cure.

I don't know if other countries recognize "mental illness" and assign a mental disorder diagnosis to their patients/clients but in the U.S. everyone is quick to label another with a mental illness as a way to degrade and discredit the person and their experience and perspective. Like "oh, she's a psycho" which is a common phrase used in American everyday language. Why is something like a mental illness diagnosis a way to treat people? I hate living in this country because of that. The patient is labeled and ultimately stigmatized in society and there's has no real understanding of their disease. This theory of the mind is poorly understood in research. Why isn't there research on a cure?

The U.S. is a new country. The medical field in the U.S. is based on acquiring money off their patients when they get sick and hopefully stay sick because that puts them in business...More doctors need to speak up about this industry making money off of sick people and finding ways to abuse their power as doctors. Can't they be honest? No, we can't help you (in that we don't have a cure) but take medication for the rest of your life because this is the best we can offer you, meanwhile just pay me... I don't think I have been given the right or honest understanding and idea of what I'm experiencing while having mental health issues. Does the Bible speak about mental illness being a disease that Jesus cured? I don't know. But I think there needs to be a change, a reform, on how the medical field assigns and gives out labels (medical diagnosis) to sick people and make money off them until they die. It's taking advantage of the vulnerable and a misuse of trust when you're suppose to be looking out for the patient/client as a moral code.

[Vonus5591]

I agree, with much you said

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Thank you for this post