> He strongly suspects the system has made him even less sane and even more unstable.

This is the core of Robert Whitaker's thesis: psychiatric medications take a episodic condition and make it chronic. Ref: anatomy of an epidemic (2010)

In Psychiatrists Must Face Possibility That Medications Hurt More Than They Help, blogger John Horgan says the most recent studies seem to confirm Whitaker's hypothesis: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/psychiatris...