This is a very good post.
However. I think you've done a bit too much jumping around with the hormones.
Every and each hormone is essential for human function. E.g, without cortisol you would become an unmotivated zombie (Addison's disease).
I've known people who are so unstable they would have offed themselves a long time ago without meds. There is no doubt pills are effective but only on people who REALLY NEED THEM.
Of course Americans being Americans want to use pills for easy solutions, like Ozempic usage demonstrates.
I think a point about a lot of people institutionalized killing themselves is that most of them are so fucked mentally they need to be there in the first place. If you put a normal guy into that place for a month, I think he would come out fine if shaken.
The biggest problem with psichiatry and psych meds is that the brain is the most complex organ in existence and nobody really knows shit, so we are trying to use pills as sliders hoping that everything will go to normal.
