If the research evidence doesn't look for what people expect then what the fuck is the science of psychiatry doing?

I've made a poor attempt to find a systematic review of treatments for schizophrenia which only looks at measures of delusions and hallucinations, what most people think antipsychotics work on.

I've seen a paper which has a table showing how after a patient reports unwellness and more of the symptoms which cluster together to make a diagnosis of clinical depression are required fewer and fewer people meet the criteria for clinical depression and men are worse affected.

Research focuses on depression not as the statement of unwellness alone but also, are more usually in research, the definition requires the research criteria to be met. This criteria is psychopathology as such and often subjective wellness is little considered.

Mental health itself has many understandings and perspectives - far more than other fields of science. There is no good definition in scientific terms and lots of damning evidence that there's no science whatsoever.

Most dark of all is this idea that it is just an enforcement of cultural and social norms agreed upon by psychiatrists then used without judicary for whatever purpose is temporarily served by treating something as a mental illness.

There are several dead old people who were killed unnecessarily when behaviours associated and accepted as part of old age for generations were treated to subdue them with antipsychotics. Several thousand people died unnecessarily because of the use of mental illness as an idea to treat behaviour.

The fact that schizophrenics are medicated for life, the drug group is being prescribed for more mental illness and the age of use is getting younger...fuck....am I the only one who sees the dangers and the bullshit of treatment?