Psychiatric Medications || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Instagram fame, and anxiety pills || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Calcutta (2022)

Transcript

00:00There is a difference between a problem in the brain and a problem in the mind.

00:04When you take these pills, at most they can address the brain.

00:09But how will pills address the mind?

00:11The mind is composed of tendencies, thoughts, emotions, such stuff.

00:17The problem really lies there.

00:19And we try to address the problem in the mind by treating the brain.

00:23It won't really help or would help in a very superficial way, very limited way, right?

00:28Life keeps testing us in small ways and facts have a way of showing up.

00:34When facts show up, then our concepts and imaginations are badly hurt, sometimes shattered.

00:40And then we rush to the psychiatrist.

00:43And that's why you see long queues there.

00:45The waiting times are only increasing every passing month.

00:49Mental health today is a bigger problem than any other disease of the body.