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leesvomit

Updated 1y ago

Medication vs Therapy: Which is Better for Mental Health?

Can you heal with just medication and not a therapist? or is a therapist more helpful with medication?

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Lights

2y

medication alone will not help you. what medication does is makes it easier to heal, using tools such as DBT and CBT. the best way to do it is a combination of both.
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TPenn

2y

You can be helped by a therapist alone (I’ve not found one yet that’s worked well for me). And you can be helped by medication alone (I only take medication). But, a combination of both is usually best (I may need to seek out a therapist).
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zenflower

2y

i take medication and see a therapist. i’d honestly probably be a lot worse without either in my life at this point.
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Vict.xx

2y

i only see a therapist, no medication, and it helped me alot. my therapist thinks i should be on meds(but my mom wont allow it)
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tacobaco

2y

When I was very first diagnosed with anxiety, I actually only did therapy which helped me work with coping mechanisms and then when we realized I needed added help is when I was put on some anxiety meds and the combination of both has helped me a lot
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MedievalMaiden

2y

I think it’s possible, if you’re willing to put in a lot of work on your own. I suffer from a phobia and so I purchased a sort of program to put myself through to heal that. And that helped more than any therapy I had done because in my area there’s no therapists that specialize in phobias. But I’m still not in a great place, and I wish I was in therapy right now, but my mom isn’t being corporative lol. Wishing you the best

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