From the author: Written specifically for B17 While working in a clinic on an outpatient basis, I came across a phenomenon that, due to the frequency of its repetition, ceased to be a phenomenon. We prescribe psychotropic drugs: mood stabilizers, anxiolytics. However, patients appear after a while and say: “I read it on the Internet and decided not to take “chemistry.” The fact is that in the annotations attached to any medicine, no distinction is made between a side effect and a complication of therapy. To prevent unnecessary things here To resist, I have to resort to various tricks - to talk about the fact that a complication occurs from a huge amount of medications taken, for example, for the purpose of suicide. Sometimes I jokingly talk about vitamins. A person took vitamins and his urine turned yellow - a side effect of the vitamin. Drowsiness, lethargy, nausea from taking psychotropic drugs are also side effects, but this does not mean that the medicine did not work. It is useful to remind those who are afraid of chemistry about the wonderful experience of homeopaths. Why does “chemistry” in the form of arsenic, lead and zinc help them. patients? And in general, “psychotropic drugs” - psyche (Greek “soul” and tropos direction, turn, nutrition). Medicines that have a beneficial effect on the soul! Resistance to taking psychopharmacotherapeutic drugs may also have a psychological basis. For an individual, what is more valuable is the fact that he himself has coped with something. He seems to be striving to maintain his place in the community of people coping with their condition. A sense of competence is valuable. Evgeniy Ugushev