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There is data claiming prescribed mental health drugs do help but then also deterioate your mental health because of their side effects or because they are only relief medicines but not altering the chemistry of these disorders in your brain. According to an article by National Library of Medicine, pyschotropic drugs don't actually alter or cure mental illness, available treatment are only providing longterm/short term relief, "without resolution of the underlying conditions." This is because there is little practical clinical relevance found to significantly improve the treatment of psychiatric disorders. There is not enough research, not enough effort to resolve mental illness. In fact, these drugs do have effects on the various brain systems, the symptoms returning after one discontinues the medication, or one being purged into a medications severe side effects. But then we need to understand how these medications are actually not disease specific, they are used across different diagnosis, which is why they were curated. The effect of many psychiatric drugs are similar to anti-inflammatory agents, and they enhance mental functions as they put a halt on symptoms.
According to another article by NCBI, psychiatric medications have a mixed success in that the reason and purpose of these drugs is still misunderstood. These prescribed drugs vary across the diagnosis' and the extremity of the mental illness across each individual. This is a fault in the clinical research team and the desire to make an impactful change, but at the end of the day with the limited studies on these medications, each drug treatment is a primarily trial and error situation. Therefore, this is a controversial claim, which is nor wrong but nor correct, because it requires more research and clinical trials.
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