Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington is a very informative and readable book on this topic.
>In Mind Fixers, “the preeminent historian of neuroscience” (Science magazine) Anne Harrington explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated efforts to understand mental disorder.
https://smile.amazon.com/Mind-Fixers-Psychiatrys-Troubled-Biology/dp/0393358062/ref=sr_1_1?crid=CSW8077LL3Z6&keywords=mind+fixers&qid=1657991544&sprefix=mind+fixers%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-1 This is a good book to read - you're right to have a bad gut feeling about putting your trust in psychiatry