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![Can You Cure Mental Illness Two Centuries Of Trying Says No](cure_mental_illness.jpg "Can You Cure Mental Illness Two Centuries Of Trying Says No")

[Desperate Remedies](https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/07/-desperate-remedies-book-review-mental-illness-cure/670480/)

A new book looks at the long and sordid history of psychiatry and its attempt to help those living with mental illness.!

_Still, for the many of us, like myself, who slog through days and months filled with unbearable sadness or destabilizing mood disorders, the lack of a thoroughgoing solution is in itself despair-inducing._