The reasoning has basically been, that since introducing X chemical to the brain helps it must mean that lack of X is the problem

Many of my trans siblings all over the world are denied HRT with the exact same idiotic argument that openly, shamelessly dismisses empirically observable beneficial outcomes: Apparently, it is not ok to shoot up estrogen simply "bEcAuSe wE dO nOt kNoW tHe uNdErLyInG cAuSeS" of gender dysphoria, disregarding that these causes can only be observed through looking at symptoms in the first place.

That "fuck empirical evidence for patient health, my ivory tower garbage about how we do not yet properly understand this phenomenon trumps your human rights" bullshit is the entire justification for why healthcare is taken away from us, and you use the exact same reasoning to justify Robert Fucking Kenney Jr. taking healthcare away from people. Oh yes, it will be a bad thing when he does it, you at least admit that much, but i guess his heart is in the right place, because while you midly object to the implementation, you fully agree with the core of this policy.

I do not need anybody to understand why trans people exist to shoot up estradiol and i do not need anybody to understand what causes ADHD to take methylphenidate. In both cases, the proven and demonstrable benefits these medications have for an overwhelming number of patients are reason enough to justify treatment.

IT IS NOT REQUIRED FOR THE TREATMENT OF ANY CONDITION THAT WE FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT CAUSES THIS CONDITION. EVIDENCE FOR THE EFFICACY OF A TREATMENT IS ENTIRELY SUFFICIENT. IT IS A BETTER EMPIRICAL FOUNDATION THAN LITERALLY ANYTHING YOU ARE ADVOCATING FOR.

All of this to say, that the idea of deprescription can be helpful if we in turn focus on changing society and the way we live, both together and as individuals.

Let's disregard for a moment that ADHD is not fucking me over because of capitalism, but makes it impossible for me to life a normal life even when i am unemployed and can, for the time being, focus on just existing and then getting my life in order. I'm a privileged European living in the last days of our welfare state existing, so this is actually my material reality. I get money for nothing while i try to sort my shit out. I have a really cool ergotherapist who is competent and supportive and woke and who teaches me little life hacks, i have a trans inclusive psychotherapist, i have not quite the kind of healthcare you dream of but thanks to careful research, living in the right place and just being extremely lucky i come pretty close. I am as close to the living example of your idea how to treat mental health problems as you'll ever get. And i can't get anything but the miost basic chores done without medication, no matter how well i manage my time and how much i body double and how many other skills and copes i employ. In spite of having zero responsibility, i struggle to take care of myself, to socialize as much as i want or to pursue hobbies and activist work adequately. It just does not work, because my brain says no. That's how mental disabilities are sometimes. But you don't know anything about that, all you know is that i should clean my room and stand up straight with my shoulders back. That is literally what you are arguing, Jordan Peterson self help bullshit, but from a leftistperspective where the antidote to chaos is not fascism, but socialism. Do you think i could function like this under AES? LMAO, fuck off. You do not know jack shit about these things, sorry to be so blunt but stop making judgements about the lifes of disabled people. It is insulting. It is openly insulting what you do.

I'm gonna axe the part where i get into the politically illiterate part of your post. I do not have the spoons for that. I have procrastinated grocery shopping for more than an hour to type out this reply already because guess what, i lack the medication to do this any faster because my gatekeepy psychiatrist will not prescribe me methylphenidate until next week, if she will do so at all, so i have to save my remaining stock for absolute emergencies. Isn't it great how the gatekeeping you advocate for saves me from being given side-effect heavy medication for a condition we do not properly understand yet? I will not waste another hour where i tear you apart further. But believe me, you would deserve it. You would also deserve a much more hostile reply than this, but then the mods will tone police me and you will refuse to listen, so have this instead and please take it to heart. This goes for all the ableist pro-RFK cryptochuds in this thread. Fix your hearts or die, i am serious.