Why I have to take psychiatric medications and others don't. A sociological perspective perhaps. I think Michel Foucault already wrote on this a fair amount. Though I haven't read much of his work. The phenomenology of medication use in depressed and schizoaffective people (like myself). Why, phenomenologically speaking, does medication "work?" I feel like I've been missing this explanation in all Western psychopharmaceutical accounts. And it's really nagging at me. I mean, no doctor ever explains anything that fully accounts for why or how something works in psychiatric treatment at least. They just wave their hands about and say "neurons" a lot and people believe it. (I'm not saying I'm not a victim of this). I am one of those people who doesn't trust in the psychiatric establishment (I know a lot of people probably disagree with me). They just say "take your meds" and be done with it. But I, being an inquisitive person, don't want to merely do that. It's hard for me to accept meds as the only route in my life. I mean, what happened to me? That's an area of research that could be investigated...