Can people stabilize a mental illness simply with medication alone?
Though medications can often aid in the treatment of mental illness, it is unlikely that taking medication as the sole form of treatment will be effective in "getting over" or stabilizing one's mental illness. Professionals generally recommend therapy along with medications to manage mental illness most effectively. People who suffer the mental illness of severe depression may put pressure on themselves to just "get over" return to active participation again, but like other mental illnesses, it takes therapy and sometimes medication to stabilize.