I don’t agree with you about the « dead end » of medicalization.
Medicalization really help you to break the circle. It temporarily treats the symptoms and allows you a timeframe where you can work towards the origin of your issues. And if for some reason, you can’t, it at least helps you live a more supportable life.
Here we are in a mental disease but you can easily make an analogy with any disease. If you need re-education after an accident that broke something, the first step is generally to treat the symptoms that could block you to achieve re-education.
As an example, my dad completely lost its equilibrium after a brain stroke. Re-education was long and hard, eventually succeeded, but would have been totally impossible without medication against nausea, which you constantly get when your equilibrium system is failing.
And I would add that, AFAIK, some forms of depressions are purely chemical issues. And it isn’t surprising. There exists tons of diseases that are chemical issues.
Medicalization really help you to break the circle. It temporarily treats the symptoms and allows you a timeframe where you can work towards the origin of your issues. And if for some reason, you can’t, it at least helps you live a more supportable life.
Here we are in a mental disease but you can easily make an analogy with any disease. If you need re-education after an accident that broke something, the first step is generally to treat the symptoms that could block you to achieve re-education.
As an example, my dad completely lost its equilibrium after a brain stroke. Re-education was long and hard, eventually succeeded, but would have been totally impossible without medication against nausea, which you constantly get when your equilibrium system is failing.
And I would add that, AFAIK, some forms of depressions are purely chemical issues. And it isn’t surprising. There exists tons of diseases that are chemical issues.