I think there are a number of people, well, some, anyway, on these forums who have not used psychotropic medications. I was willing to use them at one time, out of desperation for anything to help, but I found over the years that they did not help me, and I came to believe they were a distraction from the real work that needed to be done. I felt they served more the needs of those who prescribed the drugs than they actually helped me. So I have not taken any psychotropic medications for several years, and have made more advances, through the help of reading, and exchanging here with others on Psych Central, and to some extent with a therapist, than I did in those years when I did take medications.