A slight issue here might be something of what I see as a category error—a ‘treatment resistant’ mental illness is usually not considered a distinct mental illness. For example, treatment resistant depression is depression, against which multiple treatments have been tried and have failed. There is a lot of traditional mental health research funding on severe mental illness, and a lot of funding is also geared towards trying to understand why some treatments don’t work for some people (i.e., some people’s mental illnesses resist treatment). So in this sense, I just don’t think it is neglected.
I wouldn’t say there’s “a lot” of funding. Mental health research is significantly underfunded compared to other health conditions. More info in this report
A slight issue here might be something of what I see as a category error—a ‘treatment resistant’ mental illness is usually not considered a distinct mental illness. For example, treatment resistant depression is depression, against which multiple treatments have been tried and have failed. There is a lot of traditional mental health research funding on severe mental illness, and a lot of funding is also geared towards trying to understand why some treatments don’t work for some people (i.e., some people’s mental illnesses resist treatment). So in this sense, I just don’t think it is neglected.
I wouldn’t say there’s “a lot” of funding. Mental health research is significantly underfunded compared to other health conditions. More info in this report