You go to a doctor with pain in your leg.
She gives you pain killers and sends you home without looking into
causes. (maybe you sleep in a contorted position, maybe you are
overtraining at the gym, maybe you have a tumor in your knee...etc.)
The pain goes away.

Your child cries all the time and is wincing regularly.
The doctor gives you a small dosage opiate for your baby.
You child stops crying. For a while at least.

Unproffessional, horrible doctors. Agreed.

But the way psychiatrists function in society is very much like this.
Patients are moved very rapidly from complaints about some form of
emotional pain to being medicated. talk therapies, exploring the
'negative' emotions, nutritional interventions - to name just a few
possible avenues to explore - are often not brought up. A diagnosis
is made adn the appropriate drug is prescribed. On an individual
level this leads to several lessons. 'my reactions were not
appropriate or natural, I was in some way sick or defective,
genetically a bit off´ might very well be one of them.

On a societal level we have a political issue. Large numbers of
people sharing similar kinds of emotional pain or not fitting in with
certain trends in society do not end up giving feedback to that
society.

Their reactions are see as individual and pathological. Society can
shrug them off. Feedback is not received.

The canaries in the coal mine are having problems, but we just toss a
blanket over the cages adn keep on slamming the picks into the wall.

Hmm. What's that funny smell?