For me (and others), nicotine works as good as antipsychotics, it is just more expensive and you reach a max dose more quickly. It would also be quite impossible to reach the right therapeutic dose with what's easily available: cigarettes, gum or patches (combining one of the first two with patches might work but is rather risky). Supplements work probably better but you can't also repair a broken brain via normal, rate-limiting metabolism.

The mood stabiliser I really "need" to prevent depression, but if I could buy it at a street corner I would probably opt for that.

But I am not at all thankful for the meds they prescribe: it's just a racket. Most if not all probably make more money than your average drug dealer.

Most doctors are not the most empathetic people you could meet. So they might make you worse just by talking. Maybe not surprising that ASD diagnoses have skyrocketed since the first cases were described: you can only see what you know of.