> Most psychiatric treatments either don't work or have terrible side effects. Well, yes; even talking therapy can have side-effects (and talking therapy often

> Most psychiatric treatments either don't work or have terrible side effects. Well, yes; even talking therapy can have side-effects (and talking therapy often doesn't work). But I take it you're referring to treatment with anti-psychotic drugs. They have bad side-effects; but they work pretty consistently, in the sense that they suppress delusions and delusional behaviour. > jailing many of these patients indefinitely. That's never the right solution, unless you happen to be the owner of a private secure psychiatric clinic. You confine a patient while you medicate them, and release them a few months later, once they've convinced you they'll take their pills. Then you monitor them in the community, ideally indefinitely. > It's definitely not like taking antibiotics. It surely is not like taking antibiotics. Anti-psychotic drugs are very blunt instruments, including the more recent ones. If you had those side-effects, you'd correctly conclude that the drugs were making you ill.