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Something you might not know is how ineffective, or even sometimes harmful, conventional therapy is. It's become like a cult. Extremely low quality studies push drugs and treatments - this is following the science, not rigorous high quality studies and long term feedback. Sound familiar? That's what unrestrained profit does. (It also depends billions on advertising, creating what you describe)

The cruelty of this is that those seeking assisted suicide from mental health issues are often doing so because all the "help" they receive often has punishment and coersion in it, bad medicine, and has likely repeatedly made things worse. Especially because high status people don't tend to listen to low status people saying things aren't working.

Regarding mental illness, a good organization is

Mad in America (and mad in Canada).

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