Thanks for commenting. The treatments I dismiss as 'palliative' are poor interventions when the patient's full circumstances are considered. For example, anti-psychotics are harmful for helping someone get their drinking under control. Anti-depressant is a marketing term. If someone's depressed because they've harmed their metabolism with cocaine, they don't need to be put on Prozac for years at a time, they need therapies that restore the mitochondria.
> Understanding a problem does not imply treatment is possible.
correct. But it seems to me like mental health practitioners artificially limit their diagnosis to conditions which can be treated with an FDA-approved pill, when an old-fashioned quaker asylum [0] would be more appropriate.
[0] http://qmh.haverford.edu/