yes you can my own treatment providers (therapist, psychiatrist and medical doctor) have their own mental health problems and are managing it on medication, I am also a treatment provider with a crisis intervention center and hospital mental health unit. we can be on any psychotropic meds on the market as long as those medications are legal ones, and we are under the care of a treatment provider that is licensed by the state to dispense medications...ie we cant get our meds off the street from drug dealers, our friends an family members and all that, that some people sometimes resort to, but we can get the meds from a pharmacy after a treatment provider has dispensed the prescription.

here in the USA we have anti discrimination laws where it is illegal to prevent someone from working the job of their choice based on race, hanicap, sexual orientation and mental illness. in fact here in america we have social service and employment agencies that help the mentally and physically challenged due to physical or mental problems obtain jobs in their chosen careers...example Office Of Vocational Rehabilitation, ARC, Department of Human Services, Social Services/ Good will, St Vincent Du Paul, United Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy Association, NAMI, Catholic Charities, gosh I can go on and on about all the different agencies here in New York City that help those with mental illness get what they need to become the doctors, lawyers, teachers, therapists, psychiatrists....you name it that they want to be....

here in the USA we dont hold our mentally challenged people back, we help them to achieve their dreams.it doesnt matter whether they are on medication or not or what mental disorder they have. its whether they are able to do the job even though they have those things to deal with.

the mentally ill can do anything any normal person can do here in the USA, we have those rights and freedoms here to be what ever we want to be.