> Nor does ironic accurately describe the actions of an industry that touts its products’ power to cure biochemical imbalances that it no longer believes are th

> Nor does ironic accurately describe the actions of an industry that touts its products’ power to cure biochemical imbalances that it no longer believes are the culprit. Plain bad faith is what’s on display, sometimes of outrageous proportion. And like all bad faith, it serves more than one master: not only the wish to help people, but also the wish to preserve and increase power and profits. This sums up psychiatry and psychiatrists in general. Corrupt pill pushers willing to make money no matter what the outcome for the patient and what it takes. If it takes lying, so be it, as long as it's well intended. If it takes many people committing suicide after buying their bullshit chemical imbalance fiction even they don't believe, so be it. Such disregard for other human lives would usually land one in jail, but we have a whole profession built on it. At the same time, we lock up drug dealers who may potentially and inadvertently have part of the puzzle (lsd, psilocybin, mdma, ketamine). The entire existence of the field is absurd. One book, the dsm justifies these quacks pushing whatever they want and using their patients as guinea pigs in ad hoc experiments that often go wrong and lead to worse outcomes, including death. All because we refuse to believe that things like depression and anxiety might be caused by say an unhappy relationship, family problems, an unsatisfying job, lack of friends and community, and so many almost obvious deficiencies in our society. Absurd.