Current treatments for chronic mental disorders, primarily medications aimed at balancing neurotransmitters, are often insufficient but can prevent severe outcomes.

“most of our treatments over the decades have focused on medications and there are medications to balance the imbalanced neurotransmitters so they're supposed to you know change the neurotransmitter levels in a way that somehow helpful and somehow restores health um for anybody who's known anybody with a chronic mental disorder you kind of know we don't know enough and our treatments right now you know I don't want to bash them too much because I do think that they keep people alive sometimes when they would probably be dead I think they keep some people out of jail who would otherwise be in prison I think they I think they can sometimes prevent homelessness”