[yarg]

I was replying to a comment pertaining to the cost of health care, not specifically regarding the parent topic of psychiatric care.

Comment threads often branch down different rabbit holes - the issue of how health care is paid for is generally orthogonal to the question of the nature of the care (although industrial lobbying makes this far less true than it should be).

You don't really have to convince me of anything regarding the utterly useless nature of western models of mental health - I've been depressed for over 20 years.

The first thing they did "for" me was put my on SSRIs - which turned me into an asexual robot (fuck you pfizer) the effects only reversed in the last couple of years due to this bad boy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bupropion (thanks GSK).

I've gotten more help from fists full of illegal mushrooms than I ever have from the system (but at least they stopped drilling holes in people's heads).