Kittensmittens3

You're right. They still commit some people though.

And I didn't mean to say specific policies are in play. It's the outcry of the surrounding communities that have a loud but powerless group that want people forcibly locked up. (Seattle here)

This is noted as a common and serious side effect that many people experience. Unfortunately it's also noted as a symptom of the common diseases these medications treat. It's seemingly a mess of figuring out what parts of suffering are medication related or disease related. This is why this discovery in the article is so fascinating - science doesn't even know what causes this in the first place, thus it's impossible to decipher which is which. We just know it can address some symptoms in some people and in general some feel the tradeoff is better.

Maybe, but I don't think most psychiatric patients are in a constant psychotic state that they would take such a strong stand on this. Maybe a few Ken Kesey characters depicted in a cartoonish manner.

But as the article mentions it's not a single pass/fail test they seek but any biological marker at all.

This is due to a lack of resources to commit everyone. There are still plenty of people that are committed, such as the main character of this article.

These clearly state in the abstract that there is gray matter loss in differing stages of schizophrenia, however it is unclear if it is as a result of common medications or the disease itself. It doesn't indicate that you can scan a person without any other knowledge and diagnose them with the disease. Gray matter loss can happen for other reasons as well.

A large point of the article is that the search for biological markers of the disease have turned up nothing.

Seeing articles like this gives me hope that there is momentum in an eventual trend that will cure mental illness, or treat it with a method that isn't antipsychotics.

I personally believe that in the US, our society is quick to demand people seek treatment, even forcibly. Yet the treatment available is insufficient, incredibly destructive and often ineffective.

People like you and I still want to, but in western society we are forced to live in a global society whether we want to or not.