Fine, I'll bite.
There's a difference between addicts and people in need.
Define "need", because 95% of people on meds shouldn't be on them. Schizophrenics and bipolars are a very small percentage of the population, and most live on the street and don't take anything for their mental problems.
If somebody has potential and needs help for a certain amount of time, a drug can be a good crutch until you can walk again.
Potential for what, though? Normalcy? There's no cure for mental illness, it's the only thing they'll never find a fix for being it would require a lobotomy. Once you're fucked in the head, that's your new normal until they put you in a wooden crate and toss you in the soil. There's no set amount of time for these drugs, you're either on them or you're not, and when you get off them, it's like getting off steroids without PCT. It's brutal and changes your brain's receptors permanently, meaning you're worse off than when you started.
The bad part is that I can/do not trust the manufacturers of said medication as I have taken them myself and the effect they had was pretty frightening.
Yeah, exactly.
Even more frightening is that doctors are putting these things under ones nose without thinking twice. It's , like all "officially recognized helping hands" - a scam to sedate finely tuned people.
That's it. They're turning an entire world into drug addicts and destroying the natural chemical balance by slanting it in one direction, with diminishing returns as time goes on. If you take MDMA every day, eventually you have to up to dose to lethal levels if you still want the same effects as you felt the first time.
There is better medication from the 70ies, eg. Aurorix, which is low dose and can have a healing effect. Not perfect but better.
People in third and second world countries are depressed, miserable, anxious too, but they don't rely on shrinks and drugs to get by. That's a (generally White) first world solution to a complicated problem. I'm not saying there aren't mentally ill people that benefit from drugs - I mentioned a couple of conditions that probably do at the top - but most people on anti-depressants, anti-anxiety meds shouldn't be on them in the first place. They just refuse to deal with their problems so they abuse drugs to cope. If it wasn't prescribed, they'd be scoring drugs in the streets or doing something else that alleviates their addictive personalities. They're pussies. Real men deal with their problems sober.
