7 Reasons America's Mental Health Insudstry is a Threat to Our Sanity

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13. Thanks!

I agree and appreciate more views and discussion about this topic. I think additions to it are helpful.

A balanced approach is important. When a patient is freaking-out and needs to be brought into a place where therapy can start, then meds are very useful. They can be a bridge for anyone who is suffering from server symptoms.

Too often, I meet people who are told, or allowed, to take psychoactive medications for the long-term or even with the expectation that they will be lifers.

That's a failure, to me, on the part of the establishment and doing no harm is important, as well. We can all find the studies out there and so, I will not cite them, yet comparisons of GOOD therapy in contrast with medication-only approaches shows real and lasting results and it is about healing from the illness, in that case. Of course, each case can be different.

Toxic Psychiatry explores many of the reasons that therapy is being put on the side-burner or even ignored altogether. There are more than pharmaceuticals involved here. It does take more than labels and education for a person to successfully counsel another and the book talks about that and alternatives, as well.