[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Psychotherapy in a bottle doesn't cure the underling causes of your problems, it merely masks them.

Pretty much what I would expect a practitioner to say, especially one who is a quack.

No need to get snippy about it, you may note I only said chemicals don't cure depression. I did not recommend "Talk Therapy", you brought it up. I don't care, if exercise works, that's great. Maybe a religious epiphany will do it for some. I only know that loading people up with psychoactive chemicals is setting them up to experience a dangerous crash when they feel good enough and quit their meds abruptly and go totally bonkers.

You are absolutely right about the link between talk therapy and money, the process is "open ended" and will find a rapid conclusion only when the cash runs out...

Regards,
GtG

PS I'm not any sort of "practitioner". I'm a retired engineer, a recovering "Liter a day" drunk, and currently on antidepressants. Dry for over nine years and life is good.

[FredZarguna]

I apologize for the snippyness. This actually is a standard line from talk therapists, counselors, and other scam artists, that chemicals don't "cure depression." No, they don't, and injecting insulin doesn't "cure" diabetes either. But it does keep you alive.

I get a very big pain in my rear listening to folks like this guy, who spread disinformation. He's as bad as the anti- vaccine people, and I suspect that his motives are far less pure.