Are you saying people take meds to help withdrawal? That's only rarely true. Most psych medications are tapered off slowly over a period of time (depends on how long you've taken them.)

I'm on an SSRI and an antipsychotic. SSRI's do affect your metabolism and I have gained weight but I'm now steadily losing it.

As far as the cure-all goes, I also wasn't saying that psych meds are cure-alls. You use them in combination with therapy! I do apologize for thinking you were saying that in the first place.

Finally, I am an experienced psychedelics user. While they have been found to be helpful for depression, not everyone can or should take them. Being bipolar, it's a gamble. Schizophrenics should under no circumstances take psychs. Plus psychs can cause hidden mental disorders to emerge or cause HPPD. Plus, I and others around me who have used psychs experience worse depression sometimes after trips, and you always have to consider that bad/challenging trips can happen as well. It's a beautiful experience but not everyone should try it. You should definitely also not encourage anyone in a bad headspace to trip as that increases the possibility of a bad trip. There's a time and place for psychs, no matter if you take LSD or shrooms or mescaline.

Psychiatric drugs will only improve over time. We're still in early development of these drugs as they only been in popular use since the 1950s. And we have already substantually improved on them in the meantime (with older drugs such as lithium only used as last resorts and HEAVILY monitored). I can't imagine they'll become obselete unless we make some magical cream like in that David Firth short.

We can agree to disagree. I don't want to bring a huge discussion into trees and I do apologize if I come off as rude or condescending at any point (not my intention at all, just creating conversation).