[Sharlin]

When "the system" subsidizes your therapy and your prescription drugs (as in most civilized societies), and indeed pays for your medical leave and loses value in the form of lost workdays, it definitely doesn't have much of an incentive to keep you in therapy or on drugs.

[iknowSFR]

I get the impression that there’s misalignment on what “the system” is to each commenter here. One side views it as the larger society and the other as the pharmaceutical industry.

[Wytwwww]

> society and the other as the pharmaceutical industry

The market is huge and executives usually care much more about short-term (or at the most medium-term) growth. A company that actually found some magical cure for depression they would have no reason to not undercut their competitors and still make massive amounts of money even if that would destroy their target market would disappear over the next 10-20 years.

Also aren't pretty much all the most popular antidepressants and related drugs relatively very chip. Nobody is making that much money selling SSRIs. Why would pharmaceutical companies forego hundreds of billions on purpose?