No one can make money off of the mentally ill. Even though much of it is a 'mental' (and I use that term lightly) issue it is directly related to an actual physical situation and visa versa.
If chronic pain was a mental issue, we would all have to admit at one point or another in our life, that we were or at least are, Mentally Ill, and that would be a problem, as we still attach a tremendous amount of stigma to those who cannot or will not conform to our Idea of society.

A substantial amount of money is made off of the sale of medication, the addiction to medication, the research in order to heal the addiction to medication and so on. Drug companies cannot make money off of mental institutions that are helping to heal the patient, but they can make money off of 'normal' people with chronic (oh!, the length at which they can drag that out) pain. Pain is a universal thing, and one that we know, for sure, will never end. There are few industries that can (or will) claim to be a monopoly. For instance, everyone needs a home and that will never be a need that goes out of style. Everyone needs food, that too is a business you can bet the kids on. The latest fad, or car or hip new style is sure to end at some point and so we must invent new ones, by making the old seem 'weird' when the money runs out. The human element...PAIN, will never go away. We can dull it, ignore it and try to avoid it, but it will come back and there is no cure.

Inside pain, known as mental illness, usually puts the sufferer out of work, people out of work and out of hope don't have money, or power and so, they target the 'true' sufferer, someone we can all relate to, the working person who is in need of an answer.

Great minds are paid good money to tell big business what to do. What they are told is how to convince the public that their chronic problem is manageable , but by no means curable. If they cured you, you would pay ONCE, for a cure, if they manage your problem, you pay a daily amount, for a life time and further, we can THANK them by producing victim/survivor stories.
Who doesn't love a story of overcoming adversity and tragedy? No one wants to hear how you had a problem and fixed it a week later, where would the payoff and intensity of life come from?
Oh yae, it would come from each other, now we can't have that now can we, it doesn't pay.

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