I can’t say the same for everyone. As everyone’s situation is different. Some will have severe obvious problems and somehow will find it treatable and things turn out ok. Others will have issues not as obvious but under the surface getting worse over time, enough to be taken sort of seriously but not seriously enough. The latter is me. In the maze. 

Hence the pysch referrals, the doctor visits. The meds that only partially help as they make things worse and don’t even touch half the symptoms of my disorder. The counselling in person, online, over the phone. The frantic text to a help line not because you’re actually going to hurt yourself but because there’s just no one to talk to. And they’ll chat for awhile, it doesn’t go anywhere or offer any real new perspective or solution. But it keeps you taking till you calm down. 

And that last part there what the help line does -  is a smaller version of the larger picture. There is no cure for someone like me at my age, at my relatively seemingly normal level of function. But they never tell you that. It’s a lead on through the maze - yes the pysch says there is treatment from this source and that one. But there isn’t really and half the time they refer you back to the pysch if they call at all. All part of the game. The counsellors too, oh there always there to talk but they can never help you solve the issue, it’s mostly them listening. You might as well talk to a mirror. And then the pysch appointments become less and less even as you get worse...the pysch has more important casss to deal with and they’re tired of listening to you and have ran out of one page assessments to give you. If you even see the same pysch that is who al have their own ideas pulled out of the air. All they ever give is empty treatment anyway. Your quality of life continues to decrease and no one is alarmed because you seem normal enough and can hold a job even as you think horrible thoughts all day and suppress extreme anger. And smile. 

Online too, all the forum comments of “don’t give up you’ll get there don’t give up” All part of the elaborate distraction to keep you searching fruitlessly going round and round for an undetermined amount of time because life is precious and no one wants to discourage you. So they lie. Cause there is no cure.  For me, there isn’t even a proper assessment of the issue.  Just hunches really. Pyschs like to give drugs not commit to answers. 

Once you realize it all you want to do is burn it down. Escape. But you can’t. 

Far better it be a winding abattoir intake than a maze  because at least that would have a definitive end.