A useful piece of research that doesn't exist yet

What do schizophrenics, bipolars and the rest expect from treatment? A
census of people who've had diagnoses of severe mental illness asking
the right questions might be the start of a decent mental healthcare
system. It might be the start of a new set of research questions rather
than ones which empower psychiatrists to produce fucking shit results.

For example what do they want from life? What are their hopes for life?
What are their dreams? What do they think is being pathologised and why?

Then, perhaps, there will be a new continuum of mental health. Not
psychopathology. Not distress. Not even fkourishing.

There could be a mental health system for the people by the people
affected by psychotic disorders. This could be the beginning of a new
science. Rather than research the shit that psychiatrists research (and
psychologists and all the rest who waste good research time and money on
unimportant stuff) the research questions can be primed by those who
live with the highest levels of disability because their human types are
disadvantaged in a fucked up world.

Wouldn't that be great? Real solutions to real problems which are
experienced by real people rather than bullshit to enforce norms and
force people to be unhuman.

1-2% of the world's population experience psychotic disorders so this is
a mammoth task. And it is just the beginning. The next step is finding
the solutions. That's a far greater challenge but one within the
capability of the human race.

It would be a small step for a government to do this but it would be a
giant leap for humankind if a government was willing to go ahead with
this idea. It could do more for those worst off than the history of
psychiatry has achieved.