How Psychology and Psychiatry take advantage of the mind's natural cycles

People, much like everything else around us, have their ups and downs. When it comes to psychological disorders people tend to seek help when they are "down" rather than "up".

So they go into a few sessions and start feeling better. They even take some medication. And they swear that it works.

When you are down though the only way is up. The human mind (much like the body) has its own equilibrium. It will level upwards regardless of the help. It is thus extremely hard to measure the effectiveness of these therapies.

Psychiatric drugs don't work like antibacterial or any other form of medication that can measure effectiveness accurately. It might take 5 months or 5 years to see results. Same with therapy. It is thus ambiguous how much they help or if they help at all.

It is extremely easy to fall into the fallacy of the placebo effect. People believe that the medicine or therapy is working while all the work is done from the body that goes through its normal cycles.

Couple this with the fact that people don't like feeling down and you get a line of customers that will immediately seek drugs and friends-on-pay in order to feel better. This is not a scientific matter. It's a business matter based on supply and demand.

People don't take psychiatric medication to numb themselves. They take it so they can numb reality until their body adjusts back to normal levels. There is no such thing as "chemical imbalance" in regards to mood since there is no way we can average down "normality". Humans don't function on a linear level but something that resembles a wave. We have mood cycles much like we have economic or ecosystem cycles.

This relationship creates a drug-and-therapist dependency. We are addicted with the idea of feeling better and thus we follow the regime that supposedly helps. Nonetheless, the drugs do affect us and mess our bodies and minds in ways we can't even measure. No wonder people need more dosage, extensive sessions and the like. There is no happy ending in this relationship since it is a vicious cycle. People always come back for more even if they once got "cured".

Meanwhile more and more people have psychological disorders, suicides are on the rise and the overall demand is spiking. If all these medications and therapy sessions were helpful we wouldn't observe such a pandemic. We measure something from its effectiveness in real life measurements, not from the propositions of those who market it.

In a way humanity has come to a point that we constantly want gratification and feeling good and we do anything to mask or avoid negative experiences. Ironically enough we don't complain if we are feeling better than "average".