Steroids don't heal infections, beta blockers don't heal congestive heart failure, pain medications don't heal broken bones, stimulants don't heal ADHD, etc. T

Steroids don't heal infections, beta blockers don't heal congestive heart failure, pain medications don't heal broken bones, stimulants don't heal ADHD, etc. There is plenty of empirical evidence that antidepressants and other psychiatric medications have a significant effect of reducing or relieving symptoms, which help manage living with the respective disorder and/or help the patient work towards "healing", such as giving a patient enough relief to be motivated to actually go to recurring therapy or CBT sessions. I honestly have no idea why someone would make such a comment whilst being so blatantly ignorant of the subject.