Acid Droid is 100% right about mental illness and how society treats mental health.

Acid Droid always talks about how it's so hard to get real mental help from mental health doctors. He's also stated that they will pressure you to continue going to therapy for years, or to buy their medication, contradict themselves with their advice, etc. This is in contrast to how doctors for physical health are all about curing you and don't want to see you again, because they're actual real doctors who care about your health and want to help you.<br><br>I've just experienced this myself recently. I'm going back to therapy because I'm so mentally sick of being depressed and anxious, and I know that therapy can be a good way to get better and get tools to become a functioning person.<br><br>I went to an appointment, and the therapist asked if I've been diagnosed with anything before. I told them that I'm clinically depressed and have anxiety. She then said that she can't provide treatment for that, and instead told me to go to a psychiatrist. It really felt like she was trying to get rid of me and didn't want to provide therapy, which contradicts with the entire reason why I was there.<br><br>I go to the psychiatrist, and he, again, doesn't want to provide any treatment for anxiety and depression. He gives a speech about how I have to "live with it" and that he's going to give me a prescription that makes me feel safe because it calms me down, but doesn't actually improve my depression or anxiety. The pill he prescribed made me feel very high and drowsy and I went to bed at 8pm and slept for 12 hours. I don't feel better, I'm just on a pill that makes me feel like a zombie.<br><br>I went back for a second appointment so that he could check in on me, and asked what I can do to potentially heal from or improve my depression and anxiety. He told me that there's no cure for it.<br>Then he went on a huge rant about how I have to find a way to live with it, and pushed his "acceptance" crap on me about how I have to live with being mentally sick and that it's a part of life. He said that you can't cure depression and anxiety, you can only learn to accept it and that I have to accept that I have mental illness and that it isn't supposed to be cured or treated.<br><br>I persisted and said that I've heard that cognitive behavioral therapy is a good way to improve your mental health. He told me, again, that there's no cure for depression and anxiety, and that I have to accept that this is what my life is like.<br><br>I then told him that I don't want to continue going to therapy anymore, because it feels like a waste of time and I've given up on ever being able to be mentally healthy and happy. He told me that if I ever want to start going again then I can make another appointment, as if he didn't care that I'm giving up.<br><br>I feel like I've been fucked over by the mental health industry and I feel like I've been lied to about the options available to me to improve my mental health. I am so sick of feeling like I have to live like this.<br><br>How have you guys personally dealt with your mental health? Has anyone, here, ever been to therapy and actually improved their mental health? What worked for you?<br><br>&#x200B;