[awesomeMilou]

> If you understand the systems that manifest a mental illness then you can treat it more directly with medicine, you can test for the mental illness directly with physical sampling. We've already seen this shift from psychology to medicine with the invention of anti-depressants.

Except they only work in 30% the cases, regardless whether the patient has strong indication for depression and it's noted throughout literature that treatment with medication should go hand in hand with psychological counseling, because it increases recovery rate and leads to the patient not relying on medication anymore. They're also massively overprescribed, have as of yet unexplainable side effects in a significant part of the population and there is surprisingly little information on how they achieve their intended effect.

I think you're also misrepresenting why people don't seek counseling: It's because it's far from readily available.

The arguments you provide are really one sided and it feels like you're intentionally leaving out information to justify your position.