A later comment notes that it works well for some patients and not others. The argument is that drugs probably don't fix things very well unless the cause is mo

A later comment notes that it works well for some patients and not others. The argument is that drugs probably don't fix things very well unless the cause is mostly just bad brain chemistry. Some people have bad brain chemistry, others have "real" (usually more external - financial, relationships, actual life issues) problems they need to fix, and hiding from them by just taking a pill to help ignore them might not work so well. (OK bad brain chemistry is also a real problem, but one that's fixable with a pill). Also yes that's all a bit simplified. There's a stigma against pills for a number of reasons, some good and some bad, the fact that often they don't work being one reason.