It can definitely get better....and thinking that it can get better is actually an important part if it getting better. It's not like a cold where your immune system will eventually fight it off no matter what you do...for this stuff you have to fight either by getting the right meds or by getting therapy and changing the way you think at a core level. I always used to rehearse social situations too but I don't do it anymore unless it's something big like a doctors appointment...the shrinks always make me sort of cautious I'm afraid to say something that ends up taking up the whole time period so I have to rehearse. For me I am actually recovered. Around three years ago I starting seeing and hearing things that weren't there but also believing untrue things like a secret organization wanted to recruit me etc. I got meds and I got cbt and like five months ago I finally got off the meds...so it can be done albeit there is only about a 25% recovery rate. I feel like it's sort of like being heavy weight-wise...in order to lose weight you have to diet and exercise and that will work for some people but not everybody....but if you try something passive like just hoping it will pass it will just get worse. So talk to your doc or better yet a psychologist about what is normal or not. Mine was highly reassuring that basically there were a lot of people who thought like I did but she would provide alternate ways of thinking that were less negative. So for example crying as movies might not be depression...maybe it's just sensitivity....also why not see more upbeat films if you know you'll end up crying. A friend of mine stopped seeing sad movies altogether she was just like I'm not going to pay someone to cry...

Also regarding drugs read up on something called paws it can make you feel like garbage for like a year after you get off.