The current Psychopharmcologic treatment of Mental Illness alone is not Ideal
Mental illnesses are currently classified using a series of common symptoms. Hence, strictly speaking they are, in a sense, 'conditions'. The biological causes are still elusive but the belief is that, though not obvious, they actually do exist. There is no doubt that stress may trigger symptoms or even cause lesions that may be responsible for the manifestations of mental illnesses. Mitigating the predisposing psycho-social insults may effect cure in some instances and this is not surprising because spontaneous remissions do occur with mental illnesses. Psychopharmacotherapy, the use of drugs to treat mental symptoms, is only as useful as it enables the sufferer to become 'normal', which state is necessary in obtaining meaningful insight from the sufferer into the triggering or causal factors in the individual case, which can then be mitigated through psychotherapy or treated otherwise medically. There is no doubt that mental sanity, good nutrition and good phy...