I agree with you. I don't much approve of the way medications are advertised and pushed on the doctors to prescribe. The side effects of the new meds are sometimes, most times it seems, worse than what the med is supposed to treat. Last year, I had a personal breakthrough on the causes of my physical pain. I took myself off the meds and went natural. Today, I get to talk with a spine specialist about the injuries. I'm irrationally fearful of even possible surgery. Yesterday, I spoke w/a new therapist to start DBT. She doesn't think I'm ready for it. What she doesn't get is that I HAVE to do it. She told me that a mood stabilizer would be beneficial. I've tried a lot of different meds in the past and the most common effect they had on me? I didn't feel. I wasn't happy, or sad or mad. Nothing. I'd rather my emotions be all over the place than non-existent.