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by mnky9800n 966 days ago
Wellbutrin also excarcbates OCD symptoms with typical responses including paranoia, hallucinations, eventually inducing psychosis. The article you post the author admits they don't really understand how SSRIs work. Why should putting such things in your body be any different than psychedelics or heroin or eating chocolate when you are sad? Simply put, it's not. This kind of science is based on collecting the minimum number of people to establish a p value and effect size larger than 0. You do that enough times then you can give your pills to whoever you want. Psychiatry provides a physiological change, i.e. they give you pills, based on a diagnostic criteria that removes all physiological reasons for the presented symptoms. This all seems rather backwards to me. Especially when modern psychology has developed therapies like cognitive behaviour therapy, schema therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, which all basically can be summed up to state "your thoughts and feelings don't matter and probably get in your way. What matters is how you organise your mind and actions." So modern psychology has arrived at stoicism as the answer to a variety of problems such as depression, post traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and personality disorders. This isn't to say that pills don't help. It's just that they are not a panacea nor are they well understood by the psychiatrists who are motivated to give you pills since their training as a medical doctor teaches them peoples problems have physiological solutions.