I dispense psych meds to them. We have people taking cross-sex hormones that I’m forced to dispense and they are ALL on psych meds - several take quite a few.
Women overall take the cake though, and a lot of them take Xanax, too. We have one who called us a few times an hour until her doc sent her refills - slurring her words and destroying part of our drive-thru drawer on her way out. I have no doubt she’s abusing it; and another womam who has such crippling anxiety she was shaking when she picked up her meds, on the verge of tears.
This is terrible. Just a terrible state of affairs.
I am not against all psych meds. There are some people who I think really need them and can benefit from them.
But I get the impression they are being dispensed like candy, to some people for whom there is no valid indication other than they (or the clinician) thinks it “might be helpful”.
And I think while in some cases they can be beneficial, I think overall they have the potential for great harm over time.