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Medication Can Replace Therapy
Anti-anxiety medications can be used to manage emotions. In fact, in the past few years, drugs
and therapy worked side by side. Drugs were used to manage immediate issues while therapy
would help to manage long-term issues. Experts believed that combining the two would
eventually stop the patient from depending on drugs for emotional well-being.
Unfortunately, people lost sight of how two treatment options reinforce one another and relied
on medications without addressing the root cause of their problems. This has led to over-
dependence on medications and unresolved psychological issues. So, therapy should never be
replaced with medication.
If anything, the two treatment options should be used in tandem or therapy should be used as a
holistic replacement for medication.