I think it’s the other way around, CBT and SSRIs is not the last resort but the first. These techniques can help acquire the basic life skills of operating in anxious situations, but they’re a prosthesis.
You can use this prosthesis to tackle the underlying deeper issues.
But I do agree reliance on CBT and SSRIs as the be-all and end-all of therapy is bad and inhumane. They’re the most commodifiable techniques, but they’re Pavlovian and reduce human beings to machines you can train through a chat bot (really?).
You can use this prosthesis to tackle the underlying deeper issues.
But I do agree reliance on CBT and SSRIs as the be-all and end-all of therapy is bad and inhumane. They’re the most commodifiable techniques, but they’re Pavlovian and reduce human beings to machines you can train through a chat bot (really?).