I think it made him at least slightly worse.It made him more restless and depressed,more hopeless.I think that Eric went into his treatment with an openness and a small sense at hope at first but after a few months when nothing changed and he felt worse or at least no better ,he gave up on it and went back to relying on himself.His own way of coping and thinking about things.
I believe there is a drug out there that could have helped him but I'm not sure what it would have been.
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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus; That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.-Charles Bukowski