Medicine or psychotherapy?
Unfortunately, most of us have little information about drug therapy and psychotherapy, and we do not know when to go to a psychiatrist and neuropsychologist and when to go to a psychologist and psychotherapist.
The truth is that drugs do not really cure our personality and personality change (to some extent) happens in the psychotherapy room.
Medicines are used to control morbid symptoms such as anxiety and low mood (lack of energy) and hallucinations and delusions, but they do not eliminate the motivation and psychological reason for it, for example, someone in the treatment room after analysis and treatment realizes that patterns of self-harm which is due to the punishment of parents whom he is angry with, after this insight and experiences of complex and painful feelings, the person stops self-harming actions and hurts himself less and in the process loves himself more
For example, if a person has serious thoughts of suicide, it is better to see a psychiatrist quickly, so that this risk is removed, because the effects of drug therapy generally appear faster than psychotherapy, but after the risk is eliminated (or even at the same time) for analysis and Investigating psychological motivations for suicide is better to use psychotherapy, because medicine has nothing to do with internal motivations
We mention a few cases of disorders
Psychiatric drugs work very well in controlling and treating the symptoms of acute mental disorders, including schizophrenia, such as hallucinations and delusions.
For those with bipolar disorder, mood stabilizers are very helpful in controlling the swings between high energy and severe depression (such as lithium).
For those who get angry a lot and quickly, drug therapy is still helpful
The drug has been effective in the treatment of panic disorder along with psychotherapy
Basically, psychotherapy and behavioral therapy are used in the treatment of phobias, and drug therapy is not often used
In some disorders that have physical and physiological causes (as opposed to disorders that have psychological roots), such as severe obsessions, anxiety, and chronic depressions that are resistant to psychotherapy, drug therapy is very useful.
Medicines also work well in sleep disorders
But in some traits and personality problems such as arrogance, stinginess, dependency and clinginess, narcissism and psychopathy symptoms, medicine has no special effect (according to researches), that is, there is no medicine available that makes a person see others as more human, make someone feel guilty and regretful.
Pay attention to two final points:
1. If our disorder and problems are related to our personality and psychological problems (i.e. not caused by hormones and physical problems), use the opportunity provided by the medicine to solve it fundamentally and fundamentally through psychotherapy.
2. Regular and arbitrary use of drugs has risks and side effects such as dependence and addiction, be sure to be under the supervision of a skilled drug therapy specialist.