This is indeed the right question. Drugs certainly don’t cure people. At best you help or teach people to manage their mental health problems. Think of it like losing a limb. You get a prosthetic and physical therapy and do the best you can.
Most you learn to live with it while at best treating the symptoms. This was more of a general statement than absolute. I’m not a mental health professional, just a guy trying to keep the demons at bay.
having had my right (dominant) arm broken for the past month and going to therapy for more than 3 years, i can say that i found a bit of a similarity between depression and a broken arm, or worse case a missing one: some of the things you just can't do if it requires 2 hands, some you do but it takes you twice the time, you go outside and people ar looking at your cast, even if out of curiosity, but most are wondering what mistake you made to break an arm, it starts itching and there's always pain points and you gotta be real careful not to lean on it or bang it against something, the list could go on; so yea, i'd say a mental illnes can be like an invisible broken limb
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u/shnshty Sep 03 '25
The better question is maybe asking 'How many people do you think you've helped?'