I am a psy. grad. who also struggles with mental health issues and I think that mental health awareness is both heavily romanticised and heavily institutionalised. How can services that treat mental health and mental issues be able to be more effective and humanistic?

I got my associates in psych but left the field after that because I don't like the mental health system in the US. I also have bipolar disorder and general anxiety. There's a ton of stuff that's wrong.

Theres too much of an emphasis on diagnosis and the specific disorder instead of focusing on treatment. People need to realize that medication can fix the different chemical imbalances or whatever you want to go into but years of psychological and emotional trauma isnt going to be solved by that, that's what therapy is for.

There are a lot of people that I know who definitely have something, admit there's an issue but refuse to get help or have it treated, they decide to live with it. Which is why EDUCATION is the most important part of all of this. People who don't have first or second hand experience do NOT usually understand in any way shape or form.

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