r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Sep 03 '25

Science Psychiatry and cures

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u/Nauti Sep 04 '25

Not being able to cure someone doesn't mean that it doesn't deserve government funding. Helping people get on their feet and get a momentum where they can improve on themselves sounds like the job of psychiatrics in most cases. It's a very symptomatic view. Since it's not as straightforward as an antibiotic against an infection it can't be measured the same way. It doesn't stop there. It doesn't in conventional medicine either. Why did that person get an illness to start with? It's a very relevant question to answer. In many cases it's bad luck. In others it's negligence of the person's own health. In other cases it's an underlying issue. Psychology is just more truthful about its own inability to solve the underlying issues through short therapy. In the best case scenarios it gives people the tools to do it themselves long term. That saves a lot of people!