Anyone can develop a mental illness—you, a family member, a friend, or a person down the block. Some disorders are mild while others are serious and long lasting. These conditions can be helped with psychotherapeutic medications. Just as aspirin can reduce a fever without clearing the infection that causes it, psychotherapeutic medication acts by controlling symptoms. Like most drugs used in medicine, the medication corrects or compensates for some malfunction in the body. Psychotherapeutic medications can also make other kinds of treatment more effective. Someone who is too depressed to talk, for instance, can’t get much benefit from psychotherapy, but often, the right medication will improve symptoms so that the person will respond and communicate better.

 Those who utilize medication management experience increased symptom management and diminished stress. Medication management is also useful for relapse prevention.

Robert Winston, M.D. (Adult Psychiatry)
Carlos Rodriguez, M.D. (Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry)
OC White III M.D. (Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry)