Psychiatric medication does not generally target and resolve the "root cause" of an issue, but applies some very blunt instruments to make living with the effec

Psychiatric medication does not generally target and resolve the "root cause" of an issue, but applies some very blunt instruments to make living with the effects less bad. We have the chemistry to apply some very broad levers to moods/emotions/energy levels, for example, which are helpful in the management of depression. We cannot reach in "fix" the root cause, but often when a patient is allowed to exist in a less-actively-torturous state for a while they get better on their own.