Gene therapy sounds good but it will only be accessible to the rich.
Compare the funding for, say, Cancer with Mental Illness and you realise how far we have to go. The outcomes are better for Cancer so funding keeps increasing year on year. Mental illness is a big problem but it isn’t as ‘glamorous’.
Have you ever imagined how the film ‘Love Story’ would have looked like if she was suffering from suicidal depression? Film directors have no guts.
Sure, but cancer is deadly and the percentage of people who have it is much bigger. I don’t really like to compare between illnesses, they all suck.
I’m just not very pessimistic when it comes to research and funding, really. What is high priced in one place, it’s cheaper in another, and then things level out.
@firemonkey the provision for mental health was better in the 60s and 70s.
I wasn’t around then (I’m still young) but I know that now you’re lucky to be seen by any kind of mental health professional. Politicians have come and gone and completely neglected mental health. They are now seeing what happens when you turn a blind eye to a serious problem.
At least they are cracking down on private prisons.
In the uk there has been a government drive to improve mental health.
But when it is covered in the news it is always adolescent depression and eating disorders, talking therapies in depression and post-partum depression. Schizophrenia is never mentioned.
There is also sod all talk of improving things for the long term,chronically mentally ill.
Totally @firemonkey - we are kind of forgotten about.