The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs (newyorker.com)

> The medicines worked on their bodies, but they also changed the way people understood their relationships and their social roles and the control they had over elements of their lives. A common theme on the forums is that people felt that at some point, having taken so many medications for so long, they’d become disabled—and they were no longer sure if this was due to their underlying disorder, the effect of withdrawing from their medications, or the way they had internalized the idea of being chronically ill.

This is an excellent point and as the article notes applies to drugs commonly in use such as anti-depressants.

If you are or were long term medicated this is a valuable discussion.