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mmjaa | 6 years ago

>The 'rotten foundation' in our mental health system is treating people's symptoms without concern for their cause.

I believe the rot is based on a commercial desire to ignore the efficacy of placebo's:

https://www.wired.com/2009/08/ff-placebo-effect/

Nobody wants to be told that the only reason the heavy drugs they are taking are effective, is because they believe that they will be better when they take them - but the evidence is mounting that this is indeed the case.

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