Pharmacological tools like antidepressants and ADHD medications can help individuals move from a compromised state to a more functional one, enabling behaviors that promote neurochemical shifts.

“most all of those things were developed as tools to allow people to move from a maladaptive State maladaptive is hard to Define but think about in any domain of life you can either be back on your heels flat footed or forward Center of mass um and there are times when people are so compromised neurochemically that they need to use pharmacology in order to get into a flat-footed position yeah you know they're really back on their heels flat footed or forward Center Mass but the idea was always that those things were developed as things to allow people to engage in the sorts of behaviors that can produce the same sorts of neurochemical shifts”