I have long contended the majority of people diagnosed with a "mental health" problem, in reality, have true underlying medical issues that are not discovered due to a lack of testing. Doctors don't listen to patients, they basically abdicate their professional training and obligations to science and patient care, and just conclude (based on no evidence) that people are hypochondriacs or "faking" their complaints. And of course in the USA this also/mostly has do to with profit.
Psychologists and psychiatrists practice pseudoscience. They are wrong as often as right, and often wrong far more than right. They don't generally use blood or urine tests, MRI's, CAT Scans, X-Rays or anything "scientific" to diagnose patients, they just guess, they prescribe meds where they have no idea what the ingredients are, no idea if they will help or harm, and many of them do massive harm. They prescribe whatever the "flavor of the day" is based on whatever recently came from Big Pharma, they invest in Wall Street based on the meds they prescribe...it's not "science" based, it's not as beneficial as they and the media hypes, and in the opinion of "some" people, they are not "real" doctors.
Far too many people conflate Big Pharma profits and doses prescribed with actual benefit for patients and society. This proves that point. Large corporations, lobbyists, lawyers for companies etc...have far too much influence and power. I have yet to come across someone that has a so called "rare" disease, that doesn't spend years and a gazillion dollars seeing shrinks, only to years later come across a doctor who actually cares, runs tests, finds out the true medical issue, and the "mental health" diagnosis was totally debunked. It's tragic, ruins peoples lives and is just so disgusting.
