Well, I had a severe past with depression and anxiety.. My story is nearly like a drama, causes resulting other causes etc.. Too long and dark story individually, and noone else would like to know it..

If it is something like depresion or anxiety, a low-level of mental problems, then medication never helps without self effort. You take the pills, the stuff turns you into a dead tree, some months get past, you turn into a non-social numb organism, your level of perception diminishes, that's why you feel out of depression but not good. So when you give up the pills without fighting with the causes and the core of your depression/anxiety, you fall into the endless pit again..

I, personally, could not make use of pills until I felt strong and willing enough to get over it. Pills let me stay away from such strange moods, while I was trying to come in power of myself. I did and when I felt ready, gave up the pills, because they just screw your relationships with people.

Briefly, you get over your strange moods with right kind of medication and your willing. The pills stabilize your way. And you have to go forward along the way, if you want to get over it.

The famous "Beautiful Mind"ed John Nash is a paranoid schizophrenic, isn't he ? He deals with it on his own. Now that's what I call bravery.

In fact, schizophrenic people are "mad" because they have a totally different level of perception and comprehension, higher than the so called "normal"s. I saw Jonh Dryden saying :

Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

while looking to make sure of John Nash.