I think they're largely useless medications.

They’re doing a good job at fucking people up and leaving them off worse than before they took them! I hear and feel for you, I’m sorry that happened. That’s fucked.

It happens a lot with people who are on Benzos long term too. they’re even prescribing antipsychotics now off-label for normal people who have insomnia or anxiety, it’s insane. I tried seroqil once years back because the doctor insisted I try a “low dose” for sleep (I have insomnia and lack of sleep/stress is my seizure trigger, not flashing lights and things like that).

I literally felt like a tranquilized animal, and that prevented me from sleeping. Only took one pill and chucked the bottle. You can look it up, there are studies showing long term changes in the brain among people who use these “mental health” meds long term. And then there are the withdrawals.. which they relabel “discontinuation syndrome” so you don’t think of it as what it actually is.. withdrawal from a drug..

It’s a dirty practice all around imho, none of them are cures, some are band aids for people, and it’s common practice if one antidepressant didn’t work for you/gave you bad side effects, for a doctor to insist you keep trying until you find one “good for you”. But even if one feels like it’s helping, it’s just a band aid. And there’s a high chance for potential future repercussions as you age.

They also treat depression like it’s a blanket disease - there are many different reasons why one may be depressed, life circumstances, traumatic experiences, loneliness, hopelessness, diet, lifestyle, new stages in life, etc, but they act like it’s always a chemical imbalance that needs to be fixed. And they don’t even fully understand the method of action of these drugs lol.

Shit if you got diagnosed with something severe you’d be depressed about it too lol. That’s natural. They’re so quick with the pills though.