if medication works for you and makes your symptoms better by all means take it if it doesn’t find another form of therapy it’s kind of like the breastfeeding debate—at the end of the day you can only do what works for you   for me going on meds probably saved my life i was pretty despondent when i started on klonopin—like i had worked myself into a fever that’s how anxious i was—and it immediately cut the anxiety by at least a quarter it also helped to make sure that i was getting enough sleepeating well because i had stopped doing both at my worst being on a long-term ssri has also been a game-changer  there’s enough self-judgment that comes with taking meds am i taking enough am i taking too many does it make me weak or stupid to take meds do i even deserve the relief meds will bring what if i actually am terrible and taking pills numbs the guilt and makes me a sociopath wow i immediately feel better after being on this drug that must mean that i never had ocd in the first place and was looking for a way out it’s not fair for me or anyone else to put our own shit on top of that   tldr do what makes you well always