Well, that sure works the other way, too: stop calling it a mental issue that can be resolved with willpower or attitude when it's clear that for many people, medication works and it works well.
To make it worse, doctors just get on the SSRI bandwagon and consider it a cure-all with zero consideration for anything else, making a sizeable minority of people suffer even more and longer.
Yeah, biopsychosocial. Good luck finding a doctor who will actually help you find the root cause when you're on standard insurance and can't afford the best private ones (or worse, it's actually illegal to bypass the system).
> stop calling it a mental issue that can be resolved with willpower or attitude when it's clear that for many people, medication works and it works well.
He didn't say that though. In fact OP would agree with you that calling it a matter of willpower is an oversimplification. That was the whole point of his biopsychosocial thing.
Anyway the drugs sometimes work and sometimes don't. Hitting a CRT TV sometimes makes the picture come back. That doesn't mean a TV has a hitting deficiency. It's not clear why it works. SSRIs sometimes work and sometimes don't. But depressives don't have a serotonin deficiency. It's not clear why they work.
To make it worse, doctors just get on the SSRI bandwagon and consider it a cure-all with zero consideration for anything else, making a sizeable minority of people suffer even more and longer.
Yeah, biopsychosocial. Good luck finding a doctor who will actually help you find the root cause when you're on standard insurance and can't afford the best private ones (or worse, it's actually illegal to bypass the system).