> I think my issue with conventional psychiatric drugs and talk therapy is that they are what Tylenol is to a headache, they don't actually cure the condition, they simply mitigate the symptoms.
It's actually a bit worse than this, and that's saying something. Have a look at this article from 2019 summarizing the lay of the land in research on mental health treatment:
There's a link inside to a free full text version of the article. I encourage you to explore the citations in the paper, too, they lead down some fun rabbit holes.
Keep in mind too that the authors largely stay away from the potential iatrogenic harms of both prescribed psychotropics and talk therapy, both of which are terribly under-researched.
It's actually a bit worse than this, and that's saying something. Have a look at this article from 2019 summarizing the lay of the land in research on mental health treatment:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31474241/
There's a link inside to a free full text version of the article. I encourage you to explore the citations in the paper, too, they lead down some fun rabbit holes.
Keep in mind too that the authors largely stay away from the potential iatrogenic harms of both prescribed psychotropics and talk therapy, both of which are terribly under-researched.