The first and biggest mistake people make with psychiatry is that it will somehow fix anything, or do anything not relating to the patient. You're absolutely ri

The first and biggest mistake people make with psychiatry is that it will somehow fix anything, or do anything not relating to the patient. You're absolutely right. There are environmental reasons for phobias, PTSS, Autism, Traumas, ... So if you're being abused, there's absolutely nothing that psychiatry can do for you, because they can do nothing about the abuse (other than taking you in and throwing you back into the abuse after 2 months). Same with ancillary fields: social workers will NEVER do anything about that teacher that's abusing your kid, they will only "treat" the child (maybe with force, maybe with internment, maybe against the will of both child and parent, but only the child). Likewise, many issues are caused by poverty, or other effectively environmental factors that just won't change with psychiatric treatment. There is absolutely nothing that can be done. You're also forgetting, with those medications, what the patients will build tolerance for and how that happens. Opiates, Xanax, "Benzos" and SSRIs all have different mechanisms, but it boils down to the following: you will NOT like the long term effects. You can responsibly take these medications for periods from hours to a few weeks (to end what they call a manic episode or a huge panic). More will have permanent consequences. Eventually you will become permanently depressed, to the point that "zombie" will be a word used to refer to you. The way your body adapts is by raising the threshold of dopamine it takes to reward you, to a point that no non-medication-induced (and eventually any non-overdose amount) will make you happy. You won't get out of bed, you won't learn, go for a walk, wash yourself, ... hell Miss/Mister World could walk into your bedroom, offer anything goes sex, and you still wouldn't be able to find the motivation to do anything. Once that threshold is raised to a point that only medication can provide rewards, you're not coming back anymore.