In California, there is a huge movement to be holistic, which unfortunately has included in this gamut to mean that you are violently opposed to medication.
I am here to dispel this notion. I am spiritual and holistic. Yet I see everyday with my own eyes, the miracle of medicine. How it restores people's lives medically and psychiologically. I have run into many people in my personal and professional life who adamantly relay stories of side effects. Yes there are.
There is also poor judgment, alcoholism, drug use done to self medicate, mania and suicidality, incoherent and illogical thinking. Which do you prefer? If you get stabilized, please memorize what medicine and dosage and combination of medications work for you. It is like Gold for your doctor. If you go off medications and decompensate, the right combination will stabilize you quickly. So paying attention helps you. Going off and on medication makes it harder for the medicine to work for you in the long run. It may take longer to stabilize you and maintain your health. So taking your medicine in the long term, saves you and your family some real grief. I have seen this firsthand with my clients.
If some people do not handle the medicine well, that is one issue. But to not give it a chance is a disservice to you and your body. I believe medicine and the right combination is a blessing. I have met people whom no medicine could help, that is true peril. People exaggerate and complain for nothing in my opinion and do not know true pain. That is true pain.