What are your thoughts on psych drugs, such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilisers, etc?

Doctors love to prescribe these drugs. But they have very bad side effects, based on what I’ve read. And they can give you strong withdrawals when you try to come off them. Also, should we really be medicalising emotions and taking drugs to emotionally cope with the world? Maybe we need things like friends, family, social connections, to make the world more enjoyable.

What do you think?

  • Cybermass@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In my experience anti depressants and anti anxiety medication don’t really work, they just turn off your emotions with varying side effects.

    The best way to help yourself is self care and therapy IMHO nothing else will be a permanent fix.

    Although doctor prescribed medications do have their use, they should be reserved only for extremely ill patients who are detached from their ego or reality itself.