I qualified for financial help with one of those places that advertise on social media (Joyous, if you know it), and I've got enough to buy myself the first month of pills.
Curious as to if anyone has had experience with it. On paper it sounds like it would be great for me, but my ma is scared of it cause apparently there are horror stories going around in the news. Way I figure it, if it doesn't help, at least I get drugs.
Correct they should be used as an adjunct therapy to buy the patient temporary relief and the mental space to move forward while actively working to form new sustainable behavior patterns and learning skills to cope with intrusive thoughts and triggering situations.
I believe this is also true of most SSRIs but that will probably be a controversial opinion, since those drugs do not work on the correct timescales to be used effectively for that sort of treatment given the ramp-up and taper-off requirements and general roulette wheel of finding one that "works" for the patient.
Edit: And this is really the crux of why the service Corgi has found is highly suspicious. Without offering therapy, just meds, they are not on some well meaning hippocratic oath keeping mission. It's a loophole exploit.