I tend to self medicate, and quite honestly I don't see how psychiatric drugs are any different...they are supposed to reduce symptoms and can only do so as long as you are taking the drug. So I see no real difference.......so far I have found cannabis more effective than any psych meds prozac makes me psychotic and this of label anti-histamine I got prescribed for anxiety attacks only makes my feelings of detachment worse as well as making me lethargic and tired. If I medicate self medication, or taking a prescription a doctor gives me my goal is reduction of symptoms so I feel better and thus am more functional.....not to have worse symptoms caused by the drug.

I probably have different views on drugs than a lot of people here though...oh and I don't know anything about your therapist but I was fine talking to my last therapist about it and they didn't try and get me hospitalized or anything.