Seems therapy is as addictive as any process or substance there is. In fact seems many other addictions are attempts to compensate for missing intimacy, connection, belonging and these are the very things therapists trade in, though they merely toy with these needs recklessly rather than meet them in a real way.

Also, therapy is dosed in such a way as to create instant craving. You get a small concentrated dose, then a very long withdrawal, etc. It's one of many ways that therapy is a first do harm practice.

I think it all comes down to exaggerated and simulated caring. I see that as the essence of the pathology of therapy and it pushes people into extreme states. This is the drug therapists are selling. Oh my god, at last somebody cares and understands me. Most likely they do not care and do not get you, but it feels like it.

As for biochemistry, biological psychiatry has trained everyone to think in terms of a handful of biochemicals, as if lives are controlled by them. It's all so reductive.