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by given 3250 days ago
Doctors just don't want to admit that they don't have a clue what is causing the sickness (and not just this one). And because of that they pretend to know, inventing far fetched theories. That is a large part of their profession in health care. To make people feel they know and can help. The drugs are there to keep the cycle going. Because then patients depend on them for further medication.
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Doctors "admit" this all the time. Stories in the popular media are where we get claims that doctors have the answers. As for the idea that doctors only give out psych drugs to keep patients dependent, nonsense. There is just a strong presumption for any treatment, any hope, over no treatment. On my psych rotations I never heard any attending claim anything about antipsychotics other than they helped a little, were very "dirty" and had bad side effects which made a lot of patients stop taking them...but, they're all we've got