Psychiatric Drugs Function Using the Placebo Effect
Your recurrence when stopping them comes from withdrawal effects from addiction.
It would be ideal if we could all solve our psychiatric problems using talk therapy, reframe our thoughts, and not rely on a chemical agent that the brain's natural state must combat daily. Most psychiatric illnesses arise from shaking the foundation of what makes us fundamentally human, our fears, broken hopes, and desires, if only in our imagination.
We are exposed to such extreme views and experiences that it’s easy to end up with false yet convincing limiting beliefs that drastically affect our bodies and minds. Drug companies falsely advertise to medical students, patients, and psychiatric practitioners a flawed description of how the mind works as a biological process of chemical imbalances.
Many of us are placed on medications that we develop a chemical dependency on. Our conditions are prone to recur upon withdrawal since the underlying cause of our illnesses is not solved or recovered while using pharmaceuticals as a crutch. Having reached this insight early on, I vowed not to remain on a crutch and ride my bike without training wheels once I was ready. I wanted to cure myself of my mental illness.
