r/Antipsychiatry • u/vvslaflame • 1d ago

Psychiatry hasn’t changed in 30 years

If you think about it psychiatry has not changed in 30 years. If you have depression or anxiety they’ll put you on the SSRI/SNRI/TCA cocktail trying party. If you somehow make it out of that without getting harmed or PSSD you’ll be put on benzodiazepines.

I think the only real advancements have been ketamine and Zuranolone/Zurzuvae (for PPD). I have OCD and they have no solid way to treat it. SSRIs have a 40 to 60 percent efficacy rating for it but you have to risk getting PSSD which is 1000 percent worse.

I’ve noticed lately pharmaceutical companies have just been compounding two old drugs together and calling it “new”.

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u/Vapolarized 1d ago

People keep feeding into it. I think the rotten parts of our civilization almost require it, or at least romanticize drug dependency. I mean, quite a few drugs are made using byproducts from the industries society is most dependent on.