Antidepressants are tricky. They can take awhile to work, and usually the goal is subtle changes in one’s brain chemistry.
I’m not a doctor and was never taking more than 1-2 meds at any one time, but the article made it sound like the primary things they tried involved “throw some more meds at it”. And these meds can also directly impact one’s emotional state, sometimes to the point that they make things definitively worse.
When dealing with things that happened to us, meds are like a cast or bandage. They help hold things in place while healing happens. Healing from trauma doesn’t just happen by taking meds. It happens by doing sometimes grueling internal work.
> That the victim and doctor went up to that because they found it was a good laugh, and a fun joke to carry over 6 years?
This is a pretty bizarre conclusion.
Obviously none of us have all of the details, but to me, the takeaway is “maybe throwing more meds at this is not the answer”.
To conclude this is not to imply that they didn’t take what they were doing seriously.
She even reflects on this in one post where she mentions that maybe meds aren’t the only solution.
Very good point.