[BjoernKW]

> unless you're being treated by a psychiatrist

Quite to the contrary, while there is plenty of evidence of specific types of therapy yielding actual results, there's often very little evidence of the methods commonly applied by psychiatrists (i.e. medication) to be actually beneficial.

In fact, some types of psychiatric drugs (with SSRIs probably being the worst offender) are actively harmful, while evidence of their presumed positive effects is vague and ambiguous at best.