“I diagnosed XXX in XXX hospital psychosomatic medicine (or psychiatry or psychology), under the guidance of the physician, I have been adhering to medication, and now my symptoms have improved significantly compared to the previous, however, has not yet been fully restored to the pre-disease level, and I’m very interested in knowing when I can stop the medication, and can I stop the medication now?” Often there will be patients consulting, that now their state has improved, feel almost, want to put to stop, this is also the majority of patients are particularly concerned about the problem, I am here to explain this problem to everyone. First of all, the correct understanding of mental illness anxiety disorders, depression, schizophrenia and many other diseases are recurrent disease or chronic delayed disease, relapse again after the treatment will likely be significantly more difficult, the original useful some of the drugs may be ineffective after the recurrence of the symptoms may not be able to completely disappear, it can be seen that a longer period of time to maintain the treatment of the important clinical significance; Secondly, the correct treatment of the side effects of medications compared to the old generation of Secondly, compared with the old generation of drugs, the new generation of drugs side effects are relatively small, so we do not have to worry too much about the side effects of drugs and stop the drug in a hurry, even if some drug side effects can be taken to solve the problem of symptomatic treatment, for example, nausea and vomiting can be considered to use domperidone tablets (1 tablet/times, 3 times/day, 15 to 30 minutes before meals) to deal with the symptomatic treatment; again, the ultimate goal of drug treatment is the complete disappearance of the symptoms. Again, the ultimate goal of drug treatment is the complete disappearance of symptoms, but of course, some patients may not be able to return to the pre-disease state completely, leaving some symptoms. If the patient’s symptoms are not fully controlled, then first consider whether the drug dose is sufficient, acute treatment time is long enough, if the dose is small or not long enough to observe, must continue to treat the drug, not to mention the problem of drug withdrawal; Finally, anxiety disorders, depression, schizophrenia and many other diseases are recurrent diseases or chronic prolonged disease, even if the patient’s symptoms completely disappeared, but also need a long time of maintenance therapy, treatment is aimed at reducing the symptoms, and the purpose of the treatment is to reduce the number of symptoms of the disease. Even if the patient’s symptoms completely disappear, a longer period of maintenance treatment is needed, and the purpose of treatment is to reduce the probability of relapse or re-hospitalization. Personally, I think: we do not need to be so resistant to medication, clinical symptoms are well controlled and then maintain treatment for a long time (the specific time may be slightly different for different diseases) before considering the issue of discontinuation of medication, in order to reduce the probability of relapse or hospitalization, and to improve the patient’s prognosis. For the sake of our physical and mental health, please follow the doctor’s advice, improve symptoms, improve quality of life, and form a virtuous cycle, why not!