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My second-hand experience is that many psychiatrists will indeed reach straight for meds when they are looking for a solution.

People are naturally incentivized to use the tools they've spent decades acquiring. Just like every programmer when presented with a problem tends to solve it with code. A psychiatrist's career is based on prescribing medicine, so that's what they're gonna do.

(Psychologists and therapists, however, will likely tell you to take a walk in nature and think about your mother.)



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