American psychiatry is pretty much all about pills, and it's not new, it was already the case in the 80s. It's unfortunate but it's like that. Pills are supposed to be the last resort. Ideally psychiatrists are also supposed to be psychoanalyst, and to have been through a psychoanalysis themselves too, and they are supposed to resort to psychoanalysis methods first, and only in extreme cases resort to pills. Now in the US it's pills for anything, american psychiatrists as a whole have a dope dealer reputation in europe, certainly a detrimental effect of big pharma's influence if you ask me, at academic level and beyond... The thing with psychiatric pills, is that if you take let's say pills against paranoia, if you're not paranoid, you'll become paranoid... It's not candies, and it's distributed like candies... Talking about psychoTheRapist....