Thanks @Former-Member for the feedback and reminder,
it's good to have another perspective like yours.
Yes we all have different experiences of the system and different experiences through "mental illness" and recovery may look different for everyone, I am not ignoring that.
I've also had some very good and helpful experiences with 1 or 2 psychs though the system certainly needs to change and have a reform.
Why? because collectively, we know so much more now than when the system was formed and created.
Those who know the journey know best what works and what doesn't, and collectively we all contribute to that big puzzle picture as a way to better understand ourselves and our reality. Each piece is worthy, valid and a needed part of the whole for it to be a whole.
A big part of what has been missing is communication and sharing of greater knowledge so that the education system can receive the necessary upgrades in knowledge and understanding of the mind from those with lived experience, especially those who have gone one step further beyond what most of humanity sane or insane has understood about the mind and reality.
With our guidance, those who study psychiatry and mental illness can also then be more informed and better equipped to serve and help those who go through suffering.
As a society most mental illness can be completely avoided, if such a practice like self-enquiry meditation was implemented from an early age into education systems, for the young child to recognise "hey!, wow, I'm not that thought, it doesn't need to be my suffering", or "hey I'm unaffected by what the bully said about me, and instead i have compassion because I recognise they bought into the noise of their mind and what they were taught",
If our society came to know this, then most crime could be prevented, wars, overpopulation too due to compulsive breeding and all kinds of suffering due to unconscious and compulsive behaviour i.e "monkey business" of lower consciousness can be avoided. This is about the advancement and evolution of the Human species into conscious and cosmic beings.
The system and all it's "professionals" who have tried to sell us the narrative and lie that
"there is no cure for mental illness, we can only learn to manage the symptoms" is incredibly irresponsible, especially if such an act is done on purpose which I imagine it must be, and if these so called "professionals" are taught anything about the mind and suggestions and beliefs which they would be, then it's a crime against Humanity quite frankly, to limit and deceive the people, to intentionally prevent them from rising above such limiting beliefs which keeps them under the thumb of the broken system, it prevents them from discovering and living their highest potential.
Though really we all know they just don't want to lose customers, either that or they just don't know any better, after all they were taught by those who also have no experience.
You see, they don't want ones like me speaking about such truths because it puts the business at stake, and brings up things that they themselves are too afraid to face, it annihilates their ego and sense of importance.
However it is inevitable, the whole reason I and others came to this world and incarnated down on this low dimension at this time in your evolution as a species was to wake you, we have chosen this time of global transition and astrological alignment to emerge from the darkness and carry out the mission.
So, regardless of who's journey it is and their unique experiences of mental illness and their recovery, at the core of it, it is fundamentally the same issue, it is about a crisis of consciousness and a lack of understanding about how the mind works. Of which all can be cured with correct understanding. If you want to suppress these understandings to maintain control over humanity then that will be your karmic debt to pay for, so I would advice you to allow all communication.
All of our mental health as a species is closely connected to our spirituality and understanding of who and what we are, they are not separate, because the source of all thought belongs to various identity/personality constructs and the discovery of the source of identity constructs beyond the sense of "me" is the "God" aspect that is within all things, no this is not just my take on it and experience, it is a fundamental truth which we can and must all discover as a species, to recognise that if we are to advance as a collective species, then consciousness must prevail. The discovery of "God" within us is an undeniable fact and experience of truth, for the source of any denial also belongs to a character and all opinions that exist are of course valid aspects of all that is, however the source of all of them is something much deeper that we all share in common, it can not really be described or intellectually understood because it is beyond the intellect, it is only by experience; that it can be known.
Very very few humans have gone that far, though things are changing now and more and more are waking up to experience this truth for themselves.
Every emotion behaviour and action of the Human, is a result of our thoughts and beliefs which all belong to identity constructs, and yes some may find it helpful to have a diagnosis to as you say "understand what's going on" which is only from the perspective of the limited knowledge of the "professionals" and system, however I disagree that it is true understanding, Because if one is to truly understand the thoughts and chaos of the mind which in turn result in disharmonic and unpleasant emotions and behaviours then is it not time that as a species we address this correctly by getting to the root of the weed as oppose to clipping it's leaves?
The irony and paradox of going through "mental illness" and it's transformation to become an awakened being is that one comes to realise most of humanity is far more insane than they ever were, it's just that they are mostly all living in socially acceptable levels of insanity.
I also acknowledge and encourage the need for each individual to move at their own pace its very important.
So I am not in any way saying that my path and journey alone is the ultimate truth, however the ultimate truth that has been discovered by my path and journey is the same truth that all of humanity possesses and will discover sooner or later, i'm just providing some light for you all to see that.
As in the words of Mahatma Ghandi - "Paths are many, Truth is one."
@Lilaca @Appleblossom @Eve7 @greenpea
I hope you will find this an incredibly supportive community. I can hear your intention to help others too, which is wonderful! 
It seems that @Appleblossom can relate to what you've said about diagnoses. However, I just wanted to highlight that although some experience diagnoses and psychiatry as unhelpful/harmful, others have found it crucial to understanding their experience and their mental health improving. This by no means discredits people who have had awful and traumatizing experiences in the mental health system but allows room for all to have different experiences without exerting one type of experience as ultimate reality or the objective truth. This way of posting is articulated and encouraged in our Community Guidelines as well.
