it all depends on the person, everyone responds differently to different approaches, on top of that, you have to find an effective therapist if yours isn't working, IMO. Unfortunately I've found a lot of questionable therapists' approaches out there and the good ones are few and far between. I'm not saying that to discourage you but to encourage you that you're not stuck with the one you have and it's a good idea, if you can, to look around for a good one.

I was on depakote and various other meds for quite sometime (10+ years). I'm not on anything now and for me, it has come down to this: I can be overly emotional, that's just what I am and how I was made. I can either mask it with meds, which over the years I've learned is not any more ideal than my normal self, or I can deal with myself and how I am and learn to cope that way. The thing is with all the different meds I've been on, prozac, zoloft, remeron, effexor.. to name a few, none of them "cured" me and even with meds that helped with the symptoms, with it, I had to deal with other side effects the worst of which I felt made me too unemotional tbh.

Ultimately, for myself anyway, I feel long term I'm better off learning to deal with me how I am rather than covering up too much with medications over a lifetime..

For some people meds are a miracle and really help them a lot, so this is just my experience.

Hope this helps.
~S4