When you break your leg they’ll reset it and plaster it while it grows back.
When you are in immense physical pain or need surgery, they’ll give you painkillers/narcotics.
When you mind is off, they’ll give you meds to suppress this so you can become better.
There is a conversation to be had about society and if we give too much medication. But the brain is complex and when you are in a depressive spiral, where you contemplate suicide once every 5 seconds, it helps to suppress the fuck out of that so you can heal. speaking from experience there and you can heal
Then there are simply people/disorders which have a changed or disrupted brain chemistry (outside normal variation), if we have medicine to help these people function: we should use it.
When you break your leg they’ll reset it and plaster it while it grows back.
When you are in immense physical pain or need surgery, they’ll give you painkillers/narcotics.
When you mind is off, they’ll give you meds to suppress this so you can become better. There is a conversation to be had about society and if we give too much medication. But the brain is complex and when you are in a depressive spiral, where you contemplate suicide once every 5 seconds, it helps to suppress the fuck out of that so you can heal. speaking from experience there and you can heal
Then there are simply people/disorders which have a changed or disrupted brain chemistry (outside normal variation), if we have medicine to help these people function: we should use it.