What Halanna said is helpful, but a psychiatrist is qualified to evaluate and decide whether medication is necessary or if therapy alone can do it. What you're suggesting will probably come up in therapy in one form or another, but medication may be necessary. Psych drugs, when used properly, get you back to normal so you can go back to being yourself, or they help lift you out of a rut so you can face problems head-on. You can't just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and set yourself down on level ground.
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