Or is this about non-psychiatrist doctors rushing people onto drugs instead of referring them to psychiatric treatment?
Or is this about non-psychiatrist doctors rushing people onto drugs instead of referring them to psychiatric treatment?
Psychiatry has become heavily focused on prescribing drugs for diagnoses based on the DSM, where only the presenting symptoms are taken into account and interaction with the patient after the initial diagnosis is minimal.
Since we don't really have a foundational understanding of the brain and these are complex (probably multiple distinct under 1 umbrella) diseases, it's difficult to draw many real conclusions. Unfortunately on the flip side it is rare to see professionals that focus on the human side of things think much about biology. So you get a weird gap where people with fancy biology tools are studying very ill-defined phenomena, and people who work on unpacking the psychological phenomena are entirely ignoring the critical underlying biology. Maybe one day the fields will be better bridged, but research that is currently done isn't really abstracted in a way where it's feasible for the two sides to meaningfully inform each other. Plus there are cultural barriers in place.