Or is it assumed we can just throw drugs at whatever and make it all better?

I know a couple of people who are in counseling, along with the drug therapy, but from where I sit neither seems to be doing much good. Both of them imply that the things that are wrong are beyond their control. They can’t help it.

I know that at least one of them, though, had an awful childhood. Much of her behavior is a direct result of the way she was treated as a child. She’s just doing what she was taught to do, she’s just doing what feels “comfortable,” even when it has devastating results upon the children, but she “can’t change.”

The doc changes her meds, or doses, every couple of months.
Her family and friends just keep waiting and waiting on that magic pill that will make everything better.