>>533061chemical imbalance theory is not that mainstream anymore, it's actually stupider than that. It's just empiricism. "This drug reduces certain symptoms and we're not certain exactly why". It's the development of psychiatric drugs that lead to neurotransmitter theories of the mental disorders they treat, because an impact on neurotransmitters was noticed.
But anyways the point of drugs is just to abate symptoms. Good psychiatrists will be open about this. The real fix is psychotherapy and lifestyle changes generally. It's been understood (but constantly hidden by pharm companies) for decades that using psychiatric drugs will even hinder treatment and worsen prognoses in some cases. They're just another tool for our mental regulation. Who is doing the regulating, and for what desired state, and for how long or in conjunction with what other methods, should all be the areas of struggle we address when it comes to psychs.
>>533655unless you're hospitalized, literally no one makes you take them - in fact they cost money and require a prescription to access. The bourgeois mind control happens before, in making you need to conform to certain standards to be acceptable to the labor market, or to successfully maintain yourself, and so on. Meds are just another method of achieving the bourgeois standard that you're forced to accept either way.