> "drugs of abuse" may actually be the only thing keeping some people alive
First hand, I can tell you this is true. I may not always be taking something, but if I am, I'm pretty sure it's better than being dead. Which is an alternative I have both considered and pursued in the past. Whatever you may think of me for it, I mean it.
The vast majority of my experiences with mental health professionals - particularly psychiatrists - have left me almost pitying their dearth of comprehensively effective models or tools. Talk therapy usually went better for me, but it's the wild west and the luck of the draw there, too.
Addressing the root causes is the hardest work, because it encompasses everything-- relationships, finances, ethics, traumas, personal development (or the lack thereof) and on & on, all tangled together in a spaghetti mess. Sometimes staying where you are for a while is safer, at least until you find more stability or better therapeutic options.
First hand, I can tell you this is true. I may not always be taking something, but if I am, I'm pretty sure it's better than being dead. Which is an alternative I have both considered and pursued in the past. Whatever you may think of me for it, I mean it.
The vast majority of my experiences with mental health professionals - particularly psychiatrists - have left me almost pitying their dearth of comprehensively effective models or tools. Talk therapy usually went better for me, but it's the wild west and the luck of the draw there, too.
Addressing the root causes is the hardest work, because it encompasses everything-- relationships, finances, ethics, traumas, personal development (or the lack thereof) and on & on, all tangled together in a spaghetti mess. Sometimes staying where you are for a while is safer, at least until you find more stability or better therapeutic options.