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by arkades 2783 days ago
This, btw, is the standard perspective on medication in the psychiatric community. It's uncommonly the answer in itself, but it puts the person neuropsychiatric state in a mode that is amenable to improvement.

The data tend to support that medication + therapy is significantly better than either alone for mood disorders, which is what gives rise to that conclusion. Spend a week on an inpatient ward with really sick people that were failing on outpatient therapy and meds, and see how quickly they improve in therapy once their meds are appropriately modified. Or look at folks with something like bipolar disorder, where only medication (and only a subset of that) has been shown to decrease the (upsettingly high) rate of completed suicide.

The OP video's assertion that medication is useless is baffling to me; I can only assume that they spent their career with reasonably functional personality/mood disorders in a primarily outpatient setting. Which is another way of saying, if you only ever see the common cold, of course you'd think IV antibiotics are useless overkill.