Psychiatric medication does not generally target and resolve the &quot;root cause&quot; of an issue, but applies some very blunt instruments to make living with the effects less bad. We have the chemistry to apply some very broad levers to moods&#x2F;emotions&#x2F;energy levels, for example, which are helpful in the management of depression. We cannot reach in &quot;fix&quot; the root cause, but often when a patient is allowed to exist in a less-actively-torturous state for a while they get better on their own.