[tsimionescu]

I don't think defunding studies on mental illness to fund those who suffer with it is the way to get progress on helping. You're entirely right to be unimpressed with this study and to feel some despair that essentially no study that comes out today will materially affect your life.

But nevertheless, if these studies don't happen, there will forever be people who have to suffer like you do.

Instead, there are many other places where money is being wasted on things that not only have 0 chance of helping, but are actively hurting people. The war budget is many times over all of the psychiatric research money ever spent - maybe we should target taking money from there to help people people struggling with mental illness or homelessness or both, before taking that money from research.