Psychiatry hasn’t “cured” anything in the way most people think about cures. What it has mostly done is reframe human suffering into categories, attach labels, and then try to manage symptoms, usually through medication or behavior-based interventions. 💊There’s no psychiatric diagnosis where the field can honestly say, “We know the cause, we treat the cause, and people are cured.” Instead, people adapt, cope, sometimes improve over time, and medications sometimes reduce symptoms temporarily. But the underlying conditions, the trauma, the chronic stress, the lack of safety, the absence of social support, and systemic harms–the causes–are virtually ignored. The focus is on the output only.🤔
That doesn’t mean individuals don’t experience real relief from psychiatry. Some people feel stabilized by medications. Some people find that therapy or psychiatric support helps them through acute crises. But relief is not a cure. Managing symptoms is not the same as healing.
From an Interpersonal Neurobiology perspective, healing comes from restoring safety, connection, attunement, and the conditions for homeostasis. 🌱
Psychiatry, as an industry, hasn’t cured depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, PTSD, or any of the labels it uses. What it has done is create a system where suffering is medicalized, where people are often treated as problems to be fixed rather than humans needing support, and where the emphasis is on controlling behavior rather than creating the conditions for health. 🛂
That’s not science. That’s not health. That’s not care. It’s mass exploitation. ⚠️
