... part of the reason that many people suffer from mental illness longer and more severely than they should?

I was just thinking about this when replying to someone's post in the drug forum ('Anti-depressants' by Hopeless - sorry I don't know how to link ) and reading in particular wi-fighter's response also.

If you got sick and then quickly followed whatever course of treatment you were recommended, would you be more likely to have a better chance of recovery and not have to keep *&^$ing around (insert what you will, there) with psych issues for longer?

And if you have some triggering event/s, would things be easier for you if you did the same, even though you might not want to or did not feel you deserved to ... or whatever prohibative emotions you experienced?

This has opened up such a can of worms ... (ok i have my flatmate's flu and stayed home from work today, so I am thinking more than I usually do about this sort of thing).

Me .. I have so many times just decided i should be fine so I would be ... and ended up ^$%#&%*% up again (yes, insert what you will there, too ) and the last dr I went to suggested that if I wanted to get rid of my depression I should try sticking to whatever he suggested (length-wise).

I suppose I am just wondering if this would be true for anyone else.

I posted it here because it might apply to talk therapy as well as pharmocological solutions.

Any thoughts??