meds help the symtoms to varying degrees. Depends on the person and the meds. There are times when a med that once was effective will stop working. Bottom line, we do not fully understand how the brain works although we learn more and more each day. There is no cure for mental illness. We represent a group of individuals with a broad spectrum of mental illnesses, some of us blessed with more than just one. Some of us are high functioning and can work. Others of us rely on various forms of social services to make it through another day. The one thing we do have in common on here, is that we all feel is that swallowing a bunch of pills every day isn't enough...we come here to share, to help and to learn. The world is our classroom...we all are it's students and it's teachers as well.