I know of people who have gone off medication. I have a friend who is trying true-hope (copyrighted or trademarked or something.) I have another friend, who is so good with exercise, diet, sleep and other self-care that she did go off her meds. It's possible you may not have to take them forever, but, as those above have said, I'd rather take meds and be happy than not and not.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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