Some professionals and mental health advocacy organizations feel that mistruths like this one will better forward their professional biases or political agendas, yet this remains a myth. Mental health problems are not caused by solely bad genes or a biological chemical imbalance, according to the research we have to date. Any health care professional, doctor, or mental health advocate who claims otherwise is telling you a half-truth to forward their own, unspoken agendas. Mental health disorders are often life-long and difficult to treat. So many times, individuals with a newly diagnosed disorder such as depression or anxiety are told they have to take medication for it.
Some medications have withdrawal effects that are often worse than the original problem.
Psychotherapy takes forever and gets into childhood issues. This is a myth and holdover from the older days of psychotherapy. Modern psychotherapy, however, can be short-term, solution oriented. This type of therapy emphasizes learning what those thoughts are and how to easily change many of them, often in a matter only a few weeks. Most common mental health disorders can now be treated in a matter of months instead of years.