As others have said, this is about how you are able to manage your symptoms, not your diagnosis. If your symptoms are causing you problems that are interfering with your life, you have to learn how to manage those symptoms in some way.

For me, for many years while I was going through therapy and working through the trauma that caused my PTSD diagnosis and left me with the depression, flashback, dissociation, anxiety, etc. that went along with the PTSD . . . For many years, while I learned to understand how my bipolar symptoms manifested in my life with the severe depression and suicidality, the occasional challenges of mania and even psychosis, the sleep problems, racing thoughts, etc. that went along with my bipolar diagnosis . . . For many years, I had to be on medication because my ability to personally manage those symptoms on my own without the help of medication was pretty much non-existent. Being on medication helped manage some of those symptoms so I could continue to function, to work, to parent, to live.

After many years of serious work on all of the above, after many years of intensive therapy and learning of management skills, after making serious changes to my life, I have finally reached a place where I have not needed any medications for the last year and a half. But I could not have gotten to this place with just sheer will-power. I could not have gotten to this place without doing the intensive work I have done over the last decade (I'm 52 now). And even all of the work I have done does not guarantee I will be able to remain medication free forever; this is just where I am right now. I continue to carefully monitor my progress, to work each and every day to maintain my mental and physical health, but I am also realistic enough to know there may come a time down the road where I may need to go back on medication. I hope not, but I am realistic about the possibility if need should arise.

So, the question is this: How well are you functioning? How much are your symptoms interfering with your day-to-day life? Have you found a good therapist and are you actively working through your issues and learning good self-management skills? That will tell you whether you need the help of medication or not. It may or may not be a forever thing, but you need to think about the here and now first and foremost, and work on the ever and always as you proceed. Down the road, your status will probably change one way or another. This is not a static diagnosis; we have to learn to cope with whatever our diagnoses place in front of us at any given time, and that tends to be a moving target.