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Can you heal a mental illness without medication?
Medication never heals mental illness. And I think most psychiatrists would agree with me with that.
I don't think most people understand that. They think medication will heal them.
No, medication manages your symptoms, right? That's why. So, if you have ADHD and you take a stimulant medication for a month, it's not like your ADHD is gone at the end of the month.
Medication cannot heal your mental illness.
I do not believe so.
And you're a Harvard. Uh, there's maybe some exceptions to that, but generally speaking, 90, 99% of medications that we prescribe will manage symptoms. They will not heal anything.
What heals the symptoms so that the illness goes away? Awareness.
No, healing the symptoms.
What alleviates the symptoms?
So, symptoms are the fruit of the tree. The illness is the tree. So if I...
So we want to remove the symptom or remove the illness.
That depends on you. So the reason people take medication is because they usually don't have the time, energy, or money to do the healing, which it takes time to sit there and observe yourself and meditate or do what's necessary and do psychotherapy. So I think psychotherapy is the best evidence-based practice for healing.