Yeah, that's just nonsense. There are certainly many societal ills that do not help. But your broad brush there is entirely wrong. Though I doubt any kind of legitimate discussion would sway you from it.
I genuinely find it hard to see the legitimate scientific foundation of psychiatry, and would love to be persuaded that there is one. At the moment, I see the profession as overall more harmful than beneficial to health, and it's sad to see people treated this way.
Is there substantial evidence that psychiatric treatment improves quality of life in the long term?
Can we say with any confidence that our culture and health is broadly better thanks to psychiatry than it would be without?
If there are well validated studies, I would be interested to read them. In particular, are there any long-term studies to justify the drug regimens and the recommended doses which so many people are advised, or forced, to take for decades?
Are there well-validated biomarkers that can reliably support any psychiatric diagnoses?
Many fields of medicine, such as mental health, are far closer to religion or politics than they are to science.
Science requires controlling the environment and the ability to do repeated experiments with rapid feedback. The mental health field cannot do that. It can on worms. We could build the most amazing medicine for worms (by killing trillions of them). But we cannot do that with humans.
The Mental Health Industrial Complex deserves no respect. It may turn out that psychedelic mushrooms that someone could grow for free in their yard could have saved millions of lives over the past 50 years, but that would have deprived the MHIC of tens of billions in revenue. The field is built on lies.
Dude neuroscience departments at pharma companies have been dropping like flies precisely because they are so fucking bad at finding new effective drugs for mental illness. Old shit like Prozac and Adderall doesn't do much for them financially, but most new psych drug clinical trials fail.
There's no conspiracy there, and in fact the absolute rot that pervades most of academic science is just as culpable for the incompetence part as the psychiatry side. I'm pretty sure drug companies would love to be less incompetent at making psych drugs.
And as far as therapists making money - well demand way outstrips supply and most people do combination treatment with drugs and therapy. So no shrooms would not make therapists go out of business, unless you've been deluded into thinking that's a magical cure for all mental illness (and if you really think it can cure all psychotic illnesses I have a bridge to sell you).
I don't think shrooms should be illegal but a lot of politics surrounding drug prohibition that have jack shit to do with the "mental health industrial complex". By the way therapist is generally not a very well paying job.
Is there substantial evidence that psychiatric treatment improves quality of life in the long term?
Can we say with any confidence that our culture and health is broadly better thanks to psychiatry than it would be without?
If there are well validated studies, I would be interested to read them. In particular, are there any long-term studies to justify the drug regimens and the recommended doses which so many people are advised, or forced, to take for decades?
Are there well-validated biomarkers that can reliably support any psychiatric diagnoses?