Agreed. Though many people who take those drugs claim that they have been helped by them, but, I think, the definition of "help" varies from person to person. One might find it helpful to be numbed to their emotional pain and I don't blame them because the pain may be too much to handle, but this shouldn't be confused with "treatment". These drugs don't "treat" anything. In the best case scenario, as I said, they numb you to your pain, but that scenario is not as common as people would like to believe. In many instances, they don't even help to manage symptoms but, to the contrary, they aggravate the initial conditions. Besides, there was a study that discovered that in many cases when people felt that their symptoms were alleviated it was due to a placebo effect. What they clearly do is the massive damage to the body on many levels and increase the risk of suicide. This whole scam is promoted by Big Pharma to protect and increase their profits and this is criminal IMO. People are lied to about what these drugs actually do and don't do.

That all is not to say that those drugs don't have their place. They are needed as an emergency measure in crisis situations when someone is in an imminent danger to themselves or others but once the crisis is over and the person is stable they should be discontinued. This is not just my opinion. More and more prominent psychiatrists are speaking out against medicating people on the regular basis and against using DSM alltogether, including the former chair or APA Dr. Allen Frances. Anyone who wants to educate themselves on the subject can google Dr. Frances, Dr. Terry Lynch, Dr. Breggin, Dr. Gabor Mate, read the blog Beyond Meds and Mad In America - Science, Psychiatry & Community. There are many other sources to look into but those above are a good start.