Mental health care is often designed for efficiency rather than true healing. In this system, people are treated as inputs to health policies that result in only temporary fixes, failing to foster long-term psychological well- being. Although societal views on mental health have shifted from moral failing and institutional containment toward greater public awareness and rights-based discourse, this shift has largely remained rhetorical, rarely translating into sustained policy transformation. Many of the persistent challenges in contemporary mental health governance can be traced to how mental health policy has historically been framed. Across countries, systems frequently inherit institutional structures originally designed for physical health rather than biopsychosocial care, structures that prioritize short-term treatment, acute interventions, and narrowly measurable clinical outcomes over recovery- oriented and preventive psychological care, rather than sustained psychological support, prevention, and social reintegration.