[redfalcon6]

Let me reply the counter case. Someone very close to me suffered a severe episode of manic depression. So much so that they were getting evicted from their apartment and losing their job. We tried to escalate help from across the country and NONE came from the medical establishment. (Talked to both the psychologist and psychiatrist.) No offer of evem brief inpatient care, which would have helped ameliorate the damage which they are still facing caused by clearly a medical problem. Their answer was to let my friend ride it out, even though he was vandalizing buildings and threatening neighbors in his delusion. (Friend being heretofore a very high performing person in grad school.)

So yes, the profession is BS but I would say the pendulum has swung a bit too far based on the help we were asking for and didn't get.

A hard balance for sure.

[da1]

There's a piece of information missing from you anecdote:

How did the situation develop?

What happened to your friend?