Yeah, and atypical antipsychotic drugs boost brain shrinkage in schizoprenic pacients, can stand behind the develop of extrapyramidal symptoms (which may be permanent), newer types of antidepressants - due to their mechanism - causing prominent changes in metabolism of neurotransmitters, eliminating density of the serotonin receptors - it is neverending list of various impacts, effects, call it whatever you want. It would be OK if it weren't for the progressive, subtle or more evident changes in your personality/cognition/health, these drugs induce.
Then, you end up with some sort of new, possibly severe symptoms, which serve as an evidence you need more medication, new diagnosis etc. Being a psychiatric patient is a dangerous game - you come in as a healthy man in a crisis and may end up physically/mentally deteriorated with bizarre mixture of diagnosis. Whilst the main cause can still be unrecognized, although it is kind of banality such as hypothyroidism, sleep apnea or any other somatic condition.
Of course, many patients do benefit from this type of treatment, but there is a wide spectrum of people being misdiagnosed as having psychiatric illness, therefore being mistreated, therefore having other debilitating problems etc.
I would like to advice you, trust your own intuition, don't leave yourself serve as mentally ill, while you are not.
