What's Going on With an Extreme Anxiety?

Many years ago, i worked in new zealand and psychiatry clinic. I saw horrible cases of young people coming into that totally medical model psychiatric clinic with an episode of psychosis. And as i saw them ending up being heavily, more and more heavily medicated, ending up n one about a padded cell in this moce,. which you believe was just ghastly. It could have developed into really bad scitsophrania, but it didn't have to. The psychiatrist in that place, as a completely medical model, everything was a symptom of a disorder, a chemical disorder of the brain. So the idea that you would yo would a symptom like being frightened of your shadow en treat