I think that faith comes because psychological conditions often can be treated successfully treated with drugs. Some severe mental health conditions mostly require drugs for successful treatment.
However, there is certainly overmedication and that’s because it is easier and cheaper to medicate than to provide therapy. A study was done showing that ADHD medication is effective in children for the short term, but therapy (CBT, I think, which when done on children with ADHD is much more like a personal anti-akrasia trainer than sitting on the couch telling Freud about the problems with your mother)
) is effective in the long term. The problem is that many children show an immediate improvement in behavior after taking the drugs, so the therapy doesn’t continue but the drugs do continue. This is more likely when it is a primary care physician prescribing the drugs rather than a psychiatrist.
I think that faith comes because psychological conditions often can be treated successfully treated with drugs. Some severe mental health conditions mostly require drugs for successful treatment.
However, there is certainly overmedication and that’s because it is easier and cheaper to medicate than to provide therapy. A study was done showing that ADHD medication is effective in children for the short term, but therapy (CBT, I think, which when done on children with ADHD is much more like a personal anti-akrasia trainer than sitting on the couch telling Freud about the problems with your mother) ) is effective in the long term. The problem is that many children show an immediate improvement in behavior after taking the drugs, so the therapy doesn’t continue but the drugs do continue. This is more likely when it is a primary care physician prescribing the drugs rather than a psychiatrist.