[ThrowawayP]

> I do think it's useful for treatment-resistant patients to shift their focus away from recovery and towards symptomatic management

Would be nice but it seems risky for a patient to suggest that to the clinician; depending on the exact symptomatic management being sought and the competence of the clinician (who are not, unfortunately, exempt from Sturgeon's Law), it might get the patient falsely labeled as "drug seeking". That would be problematic, to say the least.