The mood disorder generally is treated with medication. personality disorders are usually treated with therapy. I wouldn't be able to get far in therapy if I wasn't on an anti psychotic. The therapist would be dealing with one crisis after another instead of teaching me skills to deal with everyday life. The ideal would be seeing a therapist once a week and a psychiatrist once a month that they share notes.

Since this is your first time in the mental health system I would say give meds a chance for at least a year. Treatment success is reducing symptoms to function as close to "normal" as you can.

You don't "get over" it but there's treating it. I'm not sure it's a chemical balance but the meds do help.