Yes, @sarahsweets is definitely right. What she wrote here is correct. It would be risky not to take medications that have been prescribed to you.

In some cases people fall into some gray area. I am one of those that didn’t do well at all on meds and I do better with counseling and lifestyle changes. Who knows though, maybe I’ll try meds again and find the right combination that I didn’t find before. Maybe I wouldn’t struggle as much and I’m open to pursuing that if I need to.

But there is definitely a whole lot of research going on with regard to the brain and it will be interesting to see what unfolds in this area in coming years. Just like any health disorder, there is always more to learn.

Thankfully, there isn’t as much of a stigma with mental health as their used to be but there is still more progress to be made in that area too.