> Personally I think this comment will contribute to treatment hesitation You're right; I want to make sure to say that people should never, ever just decide t

> Personally I think this comment will contribute to treatment hesitation You're right; I want to make sure to say that people should never, ever just decide to "live with" whatever ails them. There's solutions, and 99% of the time the price is worth paying. Exhaust your options but never "settle" for "this is just how my life will always be", whatever works, works. I have psychiatrists in my family so I know for a fact that psychotropics can turn someone's whole life around, durably, and do a 360° on their quality of life; and sometimes have their lives literally saved. I don't want anyone reading this to think I'm on the "antipsychiatry" side of things. I was approaching this from a "medical technology" PoV, hoping that there would be more effective, permanent treatments by now, but I hope if there are any patients or future patients reading this, that they don't write this off if nothing else worked. Don't necessarily trust every doctor (if they give you treatments that don't work or don't listen properly to your symptoms) but do listen to your doctor once you find a good one, which there are a lot of. I was using the "playing around" language out of the frustration that everyone who does have chronic illness that doctors have been unable to address (even with experimental treatments), knows. But it's very important people don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, and even more important to do whatever it takes to become unencumbered by whatever problem they have. I can't edit my comment above anymore, but I just want to say, if you have a chronic condition, you seriously can't imagine how much better your life will be once you get it under control. Trust the process, you can find solutions no matter how hopeless it feels.