Depression and anxiety query
Hi, I can understand your concern about medication. Considering strong family history, Chat Doctor. Such kind of illness is like Diabetes or Hypertension which can be only controlled on medication and not going to be completely cured. Most of time illness is episodic, so you feel better in between episode and feels that you are able to control your illness-but remember next time when it reappears it going to be more and more difficult to treat and resistant one. Ongoing continuous medication saves you from this fluctuation and helps to maintain your quality of life as normal as possible. Medicines are like specific extract from your natural product with avoiding amount of other chemicals which not going to be needed for improving current illness. So it's always advisable to continue medicine and along with this continue psychotherapy from experts. Instead of mentioning name of psychiatric illness mentioning current disturbances will be much helpful to advise any further management. Hope this will help you. You can Post any further query if you have.