For certain conditions, at the lowest effective dose, and carefully monitored, psychiatric medication can stabilise some people.  However as problems with the over-prescription of medication (including school shootings, suicide rates and family violence) have increased in lock-step with drug company misinformation and the miseducation of both doctors and the general public, information about the potential failure of psychiatric treatment has proliferated over the past few years. 

The drug 'solution' is creating a bigger problem; the chronic non-recovery of patients due to the poorly-monitored, over-prescription of brain-disabling psychiatric drugs, given to people who cannot metabolise them, or in doses that are too high, or in combinations that lead to drug toxicity.