Some of the friends and family members who come to the clinic for help believe that “medicines are poisonous”, and they are afraid that the side effects of medicines will have a negative impact on the body, so they are reluctant to take medicines and are only willing to accept psychotherapy. So, should we take drugs or not? Can we just do psychotherapy? First of all, it depends on what kind of problem we encounter, that is, what is our diagnosis of the problem or state of the help-seeker? If the diagnosis is severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, mood disorders, etc., there is no doubt that medication is an indispensable means of treatment, and psychotherapy is an important adjunct to ensure a good prognosis; if it is a neurological disorder, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders, phobias, etc., medication is still the main means of treatment, while, at the same time, systematic psychotherapy has become very important for the prognosis of the disease; if it is a general psychological problems that have not yet reached the level of disease, we can selectively use drugs according to the person’s situation, and psychotherapy may play a more important role in the process of treatment. Secondly, we can look at what benefits drugs can bring to us besides the fact that “drugs are poisonous”. First, the drug may be relative to psychotherapy more quickly control and stabilize the symptoms, so that the person as early as possible into normal life, work and study in the state; Second, the role of drugs can make the person experience a good feeling for psychotherapy to build a basic treatment platform, because when we are in a state of extreme bad mood, is not able to communicate effectively with others, this time The progress of psychotherapy will also be affected. Furthermore, is it true that “medicines are not necessarily poisonous”? Of course there are toxic side effects of drugs, as to how much adverse effects on the human body needs to be further understood. From the human body’s own point of view, every healthy body has a set of its own detoxification system, for a small amount of toxic substances can be detoxified. Regular drugs must undergo rigorous clinical drug testing before they are allowed to be marketed, which means that, in addition to their proven efficacy, the toxicity of the drugs is within a range that is acceptable and safe for the human body. From the point of view of clinical experience, only a relatively small proportion of people will experience the adverse effects mentioned in the drug specification, and some of them are transient and can be tolerated, some of them can be eliminated through the application of the appropriate medication, and some of them can be replaced by other therapeutic drugs of different categories if they are particularly serious. All in all, we have to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of using drugs, when the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, we should take the drug treatment.