Psych does have a bad history (e.g. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01541182 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01541182) and maybe present.

Psych does have a bad history (e.g. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01541182 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01541182) and maybe present. But the things you're raging against can help a lot. Therapy is horribly difficult and can fall short for all sorts of reasons, ones out of anyone's control. It's helped me tremendously day-to-day, but my ultimate problems are pretty intractable. > patients whom are not on long term medications have a better quality of life Perhaps that their quality of life isn't so impaired is why they're not on medication? Such a short anecdote can be interpreted as suggesting anything.