Do Pills Work? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Instagram fame, and anxiety pills || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Calcutta (2022)

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00:00How can anti-anxiety pills work for someone?

00:04They affect your body, your brain, in a particular way.

00:07But the mind remains the same, right?

00:10There is a difference between a problem in the brain and problem in the mind.

00:16When you take these pills, at most they can address the brain.

00:22But how will pills address the mind?

00:25The mind is composed of tendencies, thoughts, emotions, such stuff.

00:31And the problem really lies there.

00:33And we try to address the problem in the mind by treating the brain.

00:39It won't really help or would help in a very superficial way, very limited way.