Ever quit antidepressants? The media is telling stories...

[K218b]

As K218b stated, people “practice “ medicine and don’t necessarily ever get it right.

Just because they passed Med School doesn’t mean they were at the top of the class. The best and brightest usually don’t stay at family medicine levels. Not to say that they are inferior, they usually get pushed into specialties.

I can only speak to the question that was asked.

Physicians aren’t trained in Mental Health unless it’s specialized training. Once they start to actually interact with patients it becomes a see one, do one, teach one concept. And their pharmaceutical/ pharmacodynamics training is relatively basic. It’s essentially on the job training. Hence blindly trusting a physician is generally a piss poor idea as well.

Better still to get the diagnosis, and do your own research and then see what medication works for you. Otherwise you might as well believe what the tv commercials tell you. Of course they just spout the side effects without telling you what the drug is used to treat!

Tecate

You are making a very important point.
Doctors rarely get training on mental health issues and it's quite questionable from both a medical and ethical viewpoint to prescribe drugs that often have serious side effects and no much effect in helping the individual with their mental health. In a few words an anti-scientific approach often fuelled by the pharmaceutical need for profit and the personal gains made by doctors.