The cult of drugs is pervasive and all encompassing. Even today in my psych 101 class I questioned why it was that techniques like psycho dynamic, humanistic, and cognitive theory were second lined to behavioral and pharmaceutical treatments. The counter argument was that the techniques I favored (because they aimed at treating the under lying causes of disorder and thus curing them), was... There isn't data, its too philosophical, and that it could simply be a case of spontaneous regression.
I of course answered back with, if spontaneous regression exists in meaningful statistic it would be present in all of the treatments, thus including the behavioral and pharmaceutical ones which I was arguing not against, but against the over use of.
To that my professor replied. Well the answer I gave is the one you need for the test...
Incidentally, I scored 100% on that test.
The point is the majority of treatment is aimed not at a "cure" (they don't even use the term cure, they call it, "insert disorder here" in remission) but for permanent dependence on treatment and medication.
In short, the mental health industry, are bigger than the Mexican drug cartels!
This isn't to disparage the well meaning legitimate people who work in this noble industry, but in general, and in too many cases, it is what it is. drastic oversight, regulation, and transparency is needed.
The problem is a hydra; its heads are parasitic pharmaceutical trusts, corrupt doctors, and paternalistic detached "experts" in the field of psychology.
They cry for more funding and blame lack of it for the problems in the field, the dirty secret is the "problem" is that they aren't curing people, they are sustaining people. Its the same issue prevalent in most of the charitable or essential service oriented sectors. They do not solve social problems, they suppress them. And just as the forbears of these corrupt mental health providers used electroshock to "cure" homosexuality among other things. Now they drug the mentally ill into a pseudo catatonic state just so they will quietly endure the agony that comes with their regrettable condition!