Any find it doesnt matter much what you learn in therapy, it still comes down to med?

I believe I do learn things in therapy that I think are beneficial but I see my t so infrequently that's the process is very much dragging. I am not on Meds and have never been though. I don't know, few times in my life I wished I took some pill and things magically improved, yeah I don't think so. I do believe that in many cases people just must be on Meds no matter therapy or not. I work with population that on most part needs Meds and often go off, very detrimental. Sorry I am rambling today

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I realize I need both. I HATE all medications (not just psych). I realize I need to take them though in order for therapy to help at all. So I take as little as possible. I am usually okay with feeling "good enough". Medications are a constant area of discussion with both T and Pdoc. I recently realized though, when my mood is down I spend most of therapy just trying to feel okay and getting through the week. We do very little at working with the real underlying issues.

After 15 yrs+ of "medication resistant" depression, I finally found something that helps enough to be worth all the side effects. I've been on Parnate for about 3 months (it's an MAOI) and I do believe it saved my life. After my therapist hurt me so badly, I think that actually finding this medication kept me alive, and able to finally start working on things. My basic functioning is/was low low low, but I'm finally beginning to be able to work on it.

Parnate has huge side effects, aside from the dietary restrictions, I have only just now stopped having A LOT of dizziness. It still happens, but it isn't constant like before. If it keeps working, I don't want to go off.

ETA: it's my current "hospital outpatient" psychologist who wanted me to have my meds re-evaluated. She said once you get past a certain point, it can be hard to do therapy because it's hard to work on change when you're not well enough to do it.

I agree. With me it's the meds that take care of the problems. Therapy has helped me in some instances to sort out some faulty logic but the meds keep me stable at least for most part.

Best wishes, Gayle
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My meds help me function well enough to benefit from therapy.
No medication or therapist has been able to help with the MDD I experience.

What I have been hearing is that medications get us about 40% of the way there, and then talking to a therapists is the remaining 60% of the work that needs to be done, but I am too early in the process to say if this is true or not.