True treatment and mental illness

As anyone might gather I see mental illness as a biomedical concept. It isn't an illness though and the biopsychosocial model (possibly prefixed by spirituo-) is closer to a truth. This also applies to real illnesses.

But the question of real illnesses isn't primarily about who a person is, their individuality and behaviour.

If asked why am I mentally ill a doctor would probably say brain deficit or problems with neurotransmitters. They might say life experiences.

If asked why am I how I am the closest truth is the same as the closest truth for why I am mentally ill.

This can also be true of physical illness.

But physical illness is treated biologically. Hearts are fixed and cancers expunged. The biological differences in mental health are rarely treated. Chemicals work on pathways as long as the chemicals are in the system but do no healing in the traditional sense. They affect behaviour and emotion. They do this biologically but don't really biologically heal. This may alter prognosis but that doesn't make it a biological treatment.

So its not an illness and treatment makes little attempt to rectify the biological, biomedical problem.

It is just what drugs can change...