It’s very easy to explain. By going straight to medication you are treating the symptom not the cause. And you don’t even know if it works.
SSRIs don’t work for many people and we only found out 2-3 years ago.
Opioids were prescribed to half of America for back pain.
That gives scope for healthy scepticisms at least. Just because you might have some anecdotal evidence of some chemicals working, doesn’t mean it works for others or that it leads to a good place.
Lastly - there are clearly lifestyle and even moral choices that people make or don’t make that can lead to mental health issues. Just from a common sense perspective it seems much healthier to try and deal with these first, with therapy, than just medicating. And not just therapy. Exercise, diet. We know these affect mental health, yet pills are easy, and they make doctors money.
medicating is much easier than searching, finding and healing the cause. Therapy takes years, if not decades. I can understand why people pick the easier route, but easier is not always better. Also, are you just permanently going to be on pills then? I mean it’s a great subscription business, I can see that.
SSRIs don’t work for many people and we only found out 2-3 years ago.
Opioids were prescribed to half of America for back pain.
That gives scope for healthy scepticisms at least. Just because you might have some anecdotal evidence of some chemicals working, doesn’t mean it works for others or that it leads to a good place.
Lastly - there are clearly lifestyle and even moral choices that people make or don’t make that can lead to mental health issues. Just from a common sense perspective it seems much healthier to try and deal with these first, with therapy, than just medicating. And not just therapy. Exercise, diet. We know these affect mental health, yet pills are easy, and they make doctors money.
medicating is much easier than searching, finding and healing the cause. Therapy takes years, if not decades. I can understand why people pick the easier route, but easier is not always better. Also, are you just permanently going to be on pills then? I mean it’s a great subscription business, I can see that.