[Spod_Gaju]

You are talking like there are medical treatments that work for those of us with mental illness. There are not. They only have medication to treat the symptoms.

I am one of the people with this deadly disease and frankly I want to die right now because I am homeless living with schizoaffective disorder and it its the 15 year anniversary of my nephews suicide and all anyone here does is downvote me because they cannot take the time to listen.

DO you know how many years I have heard of sht like this and then I go to the doctor and I am getting the same medications my mother got when she was sick 60 years ago?

Do me a favor, read my blog, look at what I know and what I have and am living with, then come back here and tell me I should be happy about this study that will do nothing for me and nothing for anyone in the next 20 years. Then tell me how not giving me that money to help me other people living with mental illness who are homeless to find housing is not better.

https://christianbonanno.substack.com/p/for-alex

[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.

[ajb]

So, I agree that an awful lot of what passes for research and treatment is chosen based on the comfort zone of the practitioners, more than what is most likely to be found to help the patient. But I think in this case you are attacking one of the ones that is more likely to be useful.