Shit life syndrome
The end of this article really rings true for me.<p>A while ago I was dealing with a lot of shit in my life and I wasn't coping well, so I engaged the mental healthcare system. I tried telehealth therapy and was told 'your needs are beyond what telehealth can handle, good luck'.  The number of times I've been told 'good luck' by a mental healthcare provider as they're dismissing me makes me feel sick.<p>Psychiatrists were no better, they only want to talk about medication.  There's no time for discussion of anything else.<p>Group therapy was a joke,  no matter how much I failed at being a responsible adult I was told that I'm doing my best.  Well, if doing my best means not being able to hold a job or support myself, then it's not good enough.  In the animal world, individuals that are too depressed to support (feed) themselves die.  Things aren't much different for a person living in the USA.<p>I engaged the mental healthcare system because I started failing at life and wanted help succeeding again, but instead of making me a person able to succeed I was told to reframe my failures as successes.  Maybe that works if you have wealthy family to fall back on, but for the rest of us being able to earn a living doing productive work is vital to wellbeing.  Telling a poor person that it's ok not to work because of their mental condition just traps them in a shitty life forever and they will never be able to be happy regardless of how many prozac they take.<p>The fix is as simple as looking at Maslow's pyramid.  Make it so no one is worried about having a warm bed or enough to eat.  Give opportunities for meaningful work that earns money and contributes positively to the world.  Make it easy to become part of a social hierarchy and positively interact with other people.  But all that isn't feasible, so let's give people pills to fix 'shit life syndrome' while leaving them with a shit life and no hope of improving it.