Why are mental illnesses so resistant to treatment?

Why are mental illnesses so resistant to treatment?
Someone with anger issues, even if they mellow a lot, will likely maintain more of an edge than the average person.
Depression, even if successfully treated, usually has breakthrough days or weeks where it returns.
People with severe anxiety issues, even if they improve, usually plateau at a level that's far above the average person who has never had anxiety problems.

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I dont know op but Im tired of trying to fix myself for normies

MENTAL. ILLNESS.
A cancer patient is never just gonna be as good as someone who's been healthy forever even if they recover really well

because we know nothing about the brain and our medications are just ghetto workarounds (often also doing things that we're clueless about, but it just works; I mean ssri's should work instantly but they don't, who knows why)

Because your brain can't un-form pathways, only form new ones. A therapist's job is to make new pathways that fit your mental illness ones into a logic/emotion structure that makes more sense allowing you to function normally. But usually they just numb everything with drugs.

Because the brain is complicated and there's no effective treatments yet.
Before the invention of peniciline, people also wondered why it was so hard to cure a cold

It's because mental illness treatment is bullshit. There is no way to rid one of "mental illness" not because these conditions don't exist but actually the opposite - they are neurostructural and we will never have the technology to surgicially change our brains to successfully remove mental illnesses without compromising downsides.

This is true for homosexuals and transgenders as well.

Penicillin isn't for colds.

I think there's a lot of truth to this but it's not a 100 percent thing, some cancer survivors really don't have any long-term effects. My grandmother had a brief bout with breast cancer in her mid-50s; this was 1979/1980. She quickly went into remission, and not only did she never experience cancer again, but she had no real health problems at all until she was 90. Her 60s, 70s, and 80s were all completely uneventful.

Anyway sorry for the ackshully your basic point is sound

Yah I just feel like people ignore the ILLNESS part too much

That's a good point, sometimes it's good to really think about words and phrases you normally glaze over. It's not a transient emotion, it's literally an actual illness.

Because there's no incentive for big pharma to cure anything. You also have the government arbitrarily deciding that some medications are "drugs" and can't be used for research despite obviously having lots of potential. There's essentially a restriction on medications where they not only have to work, but also not be enjoyable for people to use.

I've never been diagnosed but it's near impossible for me to talk to people, even when I open up on Any Forums and get kind replies I start prancing around my apartment and I want to keep the conversation going but my mind blanks out

I think this is partially wrong for the simple fact that even modern day treatments (antidepressants and CBD oil) have helped me greatly. It's not a cure but you don't have to perform surgery on the brain to reap a significant benefit.

The "self-diagnosis is bad" thing is partially a meme. Professionals might be important for complex disorders like personality disorders, but you don't need a """professional""" to diagnose yourself with something as simple as depression or chronic anxiety. Anxiety is more resistant to treatment in general than depression btw, I've had huge declines in depression but anxiety is still omnipresent in my life

I've gone to therapy for years, I've done a looot of drugs, and for as long as I can remember I've desperately wanted to be someone other than myself. But the truth is obvious, your brain is like a computer that only grows hardware for a few years. Once you're an adult, the hardware you have is what you'll be stuck with for the rest of your life. Any new software you introduce has to be compatible with that hardware, so if that hardware is shit, sucks for you. All you can do is kill yourself and hope that in your next life your parents will install some better parts.

Eh, this isn't really true, and I wish this old outdated myth would go die somewhere. The brain maintains neuroplasticity throughout its life (This is based off of actual studies using modern equipment from the 00s and 10s and 20s, not old wilves' tales from the 1970s or whatever). It only goes away if you get dementia.

Mental illness is not hard to treat because you're an adult and thus the brain is unable to change, mental illness is hard to treat because it's hard to treat. If you give therapy to a traumatized 8 year old girl or an 11 year old with chronic anxiety due to their experiences, it might already be too late, mental illness is very treatment-resistant regardless of age.

Just look at reality. People never change. If something doesn't come naturally to you at 30, it is never going to. It doesn't matter if it's technically possible, if it's impossible in practice.

>Just look at reality. People never change.

Okay... I see my dad, who dramatically mellowed out during his 40s and 50s after being an angry young man for decades. I see my sister, who at the age of 40 (she's 46 now) dropped her drug addiction, stopped smoking, and has been a hardworking upstanding person ever since. I see my brother, who in his 30s became a much more sensitive and mature person with a much higher level of emotional intelligence, whereas in his 20s he was an asshole. I think that looking at reality paints a different image from what you suggest, but I will presume in advance that none of these examples count and you'll discard all of them for whatever reason.

Because 98% of mental illness isn’t real and the relentless pathologising of human behaviour will be looked back on as one of the biggest mistakes in history.

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I just want a brain reset
Living my social anxiety, avoidant personality and depression is an absolute unbearable hell

Ugh.
Well, at least the first 10 or so replies this thread got were very reasonable and intelligent.

>just will yourself into being normal bro

Don’t forget to take your daily Xanax, feeling anything but constant, mellow apathy means there’s something wrong with you.

the only way to cure my depression is suicide

Cool strawman. Dumb little snot. I wonder why the average 4channer unironically has the intelligence of a 12 year old.

Not really a strawman when the response to anything but bliss is “you have a mental disorder please take some pills”.

Also I did leave room for the 2% of conditions that I’d call truly neurodivergent. Stuff of the schizophrenia/delusions/losing grasp of reality variety. But just reading OP’s post annoys me. “Anger issues”, “anxiety” - that’s human behaviour, those are emotions. Feeling them isn’t a medical condition, it’s the human condition.

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>to anything but bliss is “you have a mental disorder please take some pills”.

Here's a possibility, user. Maybe the problem isn't with me, but with you being a retarded strawmanning idiot putting words in my mouth.

Transient anxiety in response to external factors = Normal human emotion
Chronic anxiety that you contend with on a daily basis = Mental illness that could use treatment

Occasional anger, even if disproportionate = Normal human emotions
Constantly being eaten up by anger and resentment, or having a pattern of violent/abusive behavior due to uncontroller anger = Condition that possibly needs some kind of treatment

This isn't that complicated. This really, really, really should not be this god damn hard. Stop strawmanning, stop using false equivalencies, stop acting like a fucking moron in general.