I wanted to ask about this because since my last psychiatrist appointment my parents decided to completely stop my pharmaceutical treatment. They looked for a “spiritual guide” and now I am attending “therapy” with her. It’s been quite useful I’m not going to lie, but I feel I’m not going anywhere. 
My parents are scared of meds, I’ve taken different types of antidepressants for the last two years but all of them had made my symptoms worse. I was diagnosed with depression and then with dysthymia, but guided by my own hypothesis (I’ve identified cycles of emotions, and at least 2-3 episodes that to me could be identified as hypomania) my physiatrist agreed to tell my parents that I was in the bipolar spectrum. 
Of course they freaked out. Depression can last a couple months, dysthymia can last longer but can still be cured, but bipolar is for life. 

So I wanted to task you, have you ever really felt better? Can you leave a peaceful life? 
When I have asked to other sufferers sometimes I get “yes of course, it gets better!” or “meds saved my life”, but is it really like that? I myself have told others that, because I’m that moment I believed because I felt like I was going to eat the world. 
Still, after that, even just a day or a week, I felt again like I wanted to die. 
That’s why I’m asking for more neutral answers. I know that in order for this to work  we need a combo of persona, psychiatric and psychological work, but is this really for life? ;-;