Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
I&#x27;ll join the chorus of the other sibling commenters here by expressing skepticism that any medication will at all help with anything.<p>Psychiatric medication often simply numbs your brain so it stops being worried about things that legitimately and truly torment it. It reduces your sensitivity, it knocks off your normal brain chemicals balance, and it turns you into a robot. I&#x27;ve had a family member go through this a long time ago. It was soul-crushing watching them when I visited. They were almost turned to vegetables with chemical means.<p>Doing all this does NOT solve the underlying problems that make people reach for suicide. Those problems are societal and very deeply ingrained at this point.<p>We must look for the reasons that younger people start attempting suicides more than before and try and cure the illness, not the symptoms.<p>I even started finding it offensive when I see people offering medication. It comes across as: &quot;Here ya go champ, let&#x27;s again deceive your brain that everything&#x27;s alright when it really isn&#x27;t, now off ya go and be a good worker bee, and oh by the way that&#x27;ll be $2000 for the 10 minutes session&quot;. Could it be that we just treat people worse and worse with time? I say yes, yes we do.<p>But judging by a lot of other replies in this thread, I&#x27;d venture to say that many people are not ready to hear it, sadly, and are still in denial, and will shout anybody thinking otherwise away from their platforms (whichever they might be, virtual or in the meat space). And until that changes, the problem will only deepen.