Me too, I had always had low level anxiety+depression but at the end of the pandemic it went out of control. Your comment made me think that people like to self

Me too, I had always had low level anxiety+depression but at the end of the pandemic it went out of control. Your comment made me think that people like to self medicate. Maybe a 10 day silent retreat is not that different from a heroic dose of psilocybin. Both are certainly high risk (potentially high reward) maneuvers to treat a mental health problem. Meditation was mildly helpful but it wasn’t really a practical solution for a working parent. You can’t hit pause on your life very often. SSRIs it is for now