[analyst74]

The field of psychiatry is actually undergoing a lot of changes and improvements. With progress in understanding how our brain works at chemical level, and newer drugs to balance the chemicals when they are out of balance. Many of the previously untreatable mental problems are now treatable with medicine.

That is unfortunately only available to psychiatrists, who has medical designation.

source: a psychiatrist friend

[patcon]

> With progress in understanding [...] and newer drugs to balance the chemicals [...] Many [...] mental problems are now treatable with medicine.

The catch here is that those deciding what "progress" is, are the same therapists and health professionals of the sort speaking in the video. And as they said, they are under immense pressure of their own. The alternative to "medication" is social support, of which they themselves are often primary sources. They are overburdened themselves and often under-supported by gov, so they're under stress (therapists for well-off people excluded).

tl;dr - they have a huge incentive (for preservation of their own sanity) to see "medication" as progress, because it relieves their own burden (which is structural to system).

I'm not saying this is malevolent or judging anyone to be bad, but it's something to be wary of

Disclaimer/source: sibling is community social worker

[zaroth]

At a macro level (population surveys of mental health) I think we can safely say your friend is biased, and that the field is basically stumbling around in the dark ages and generally unable to offer much help.

Didn’t the latest DSM get basically outright rejected by the NIH?