Just sharing a personal experience, meds are my life saver. I got diagnosed late, at 22-23 yo. If I could turn back time I wish I had been diagnosed earlier, the sooner the better. The right medications can really be a life saver. However I do understand that sometimes psychiatrist can make a wrong diagnose which lead to wrong medications and sometimes we need to invest time, energy, etc in finding the right meds because two people with the same diagnose can have a different reaction to the same meds.

And this question got into my mind, if I may ask, what makes you sure that the school psychologist might a bit overreacted?