My DBT worker is a strong believer of not being influenced by tablets and being "pure in the mind" both during therapy sessions and during my time outside of the unit.

However.. and this is a rather big however. She said that she acknowledges some people with bipolar NEED medication to allow the therapy to even begin to be constructive. She also told me that she's looked at my file over the past five years and strongly believes that without medication I would be dead by now.

So yeah. Hope that helps a bit