modern mental health erroneously views the brain and mind as some kind of like "academic soul" when it is actually a physical organ that has physical problems like any other organ does
Imagine if you had kidney disease and you could only get dialysis after you saw a bunch of therapists and talked about your feelings to make sure your kidney failure wasnt just all in your head
@vriska This seems vaguely similar to some conditions that have no cure and often the best treatment is lifestyle modification (e.g. early stage diabetes II, or many orthopedic issues). Why do you think requiring therapy is to make sure that it's a "real" condition for some value of real and not to check whether it can be treated (with satisfactory results) by something that is less likely to cause additional issues?
@robryk I don't engage in semantic debate on principle