Psychiatric medications have value, either as a bridge to enable meaningful therapy, or as a way of addressing risk. No serious psychiatrist thinks any more or any less of them than that, they are only part of a therapy. This myth that we only care for pills must end.

And with it, this dichotomy of psychology and psychiatry. We walk the same path. Any emnity is more likely formed of misunderstanding and myth, not moral virtue. By entertaining this polarised view of care, we bring about the end of effective and human growth.

Like it or not, mental health is hard. As is treating it. Responsibility weighs heavy, and decisions are made to save lives often in contradiction to immediate wants. This is the burden we carry, and we carry it only with the saving grace of knowing the utility of altruism.

Often psychiatry is blasted as reductionist, narcissistic and power hungry. It is not. It demands empathy, sacrifice and working with the knowledge that your impact could mean everything, or ruin it all. Psychology is the same, we are the same team.

And is it perfect, no. Is harm possible? Yes. Does it happen? Yes. On both sides. There is no code to unlock humanity, no well trodden path to save a stumble. But there is a reality here that we all do the best we can and go home knowing the risk any power holds.

Be that the power of knowledge, the power of control, and the power of lacking both. These are the only well trodden paths of the human mind. We would do best to understand the universality of shared insecurity.

So I will say it again, for those in the back, those that would label me and see me fall, we are on the same team. Where the mind still exists, with all its complexity and uncertainty, the only thing we can rely on is each other.

Now dont medications sound a little less wrong?