I wish I’d saved it but I saw a study once where a university took elderly people with dementia and alzheimers. They got these people off of most of the drugs the doctors had them taking. Over half of the patients regained their sanity. Over-medication is a bigger factor than Drs want to admit.
My mother-in-law started to go nuts a few years back. My wife found that the DR had put her on paxil. My wife got her off it and voila!. Back to normal.
You are not the only one on the thread to mention that.
Not surprising IMHO.
My Mom was taking pill after pill, and begging the doctor for more. I’ve no idea what all she was on (1000 miles away), but eventually when she went into assisted living, my Aunt & Uncle took her to a different doctor and got her off all that junk.
It was amazing. After 20 years of being a zombie, she became a human being. For the last year or so of her life. (sigh)
Which is why I hate drugs and hope to have as little to do with them as possible.