My first therapist didn't allow her clients to take meds. I mentioned them to her once and she got really upset and told me if I wanted to take meds, she would drop me. I didn't take them. It was difficult but I did beat the main symptoms of major depression without meds. I remember about 6 months after I began therapy, I was feeling like I had made so much progress and was not nearly so depressed anymore, and she said to me that therapy was not helping my depression and she wanted to give me a referral to a psychiatrist so I could talk to him about meds. She wrote down the name of a pdoc on a piece of paper and gave it to me. After I left her office, I threw it out. I had really bought into her idea of conquering depression without meds and it bothered me to see her do an about face. And here I thought I had made so much progress! I felt like, yeah, when I was miserable and probably could have benefited from meds, she wouldn't let me take them, and now that I am feeling better, she wants me to take drugs. Just made no sense, like she made me go through hell unnecessarily.

But anyway, I am glad I did it with no meds. Ironically, I do take psychotropic meds now--for ADHD-like symptoms. Those meds have been very helpful with those symptoms, so maybe I was too compliant when I saw that original therapist--maybe meds would have helped me with depression. I guess there is more than one way to skin a cat.