People Promising Simplistic Solutions to Mental Illness

I am sick to death of people who give simplistic solutions to long-term serious mental illness. Even good-hearted people ignorantly do this.

I have been told:

• Yoga will cure your depression
• Meditation will cure your depression
• Diet x will cure ALL mental illness
• Supplement y will cure ALL mental illness
• This medication will cure your depression
• Running will cure your depression
• You just need to...
• Therapy z will cure all your problems (CBT is included in this list)

People need to grow up and realise that mental illness (even the same mental illness such as depression) has multiple causes. Some depression will be mostly genetic, some will be mostly upbringing, some will be mostly based on someone's current environment, and for many people a mixture of all these.

Even professionals haven't woken up to the realisation that the causes are often varied and complex, as are the solutions. Most people peddling a solution is after money or has been taken in by some cultish idea.

These ideas are basically saying that people with serious mental illness obviously just haven't TRIED hard enough to get better... and all they need to do is x, y or z. The people that say these things are totally undermining and invalidating someone's struggle.

I am intelligent and wise enough to know that there are rarely simple solutions to mental illness. I give compassion to anyone suffering with mental illness, or anyone caring for someone with mental illness. My heart goes out to you all.