As someone who has a lot of experience speaking and dealing with mentally ill people, I know that medication can be effective in many cases. I'm not talking about some run of the mill psuedo mental illness that attention whores self diagnose themselves with, I mean clinically diagnosed mental illnesses that have a serious impact on people's lives. I've been close with people who've experienced episodes of schizophrenia, serious anxiety and depression, suicidal tendencies, etc, that then got better because of the resources and medications available to them. Conversely, I've seen the opposite happen, it's important to understand that there's no one solution for everybody when it comes to mental health. We can't save everybody. The real issue with American healthcare system has not to do with its quality or effectiveness, but rather its exorbitant cost.
Many don't even possess sympathy for those who are impacted by real mental illnesses, it's not surprising to see the kind of responses above mi (like no mames way, holmes...) parroting the same terminally online chudcel know it all takes