Medication can play a role in managing severe conditions like bipolar manic episodes or seizures, but should be used in conjunction with other strategies.

“so if for example we go look at the pillars and things are not going so well and and you see that whenever that person has a bipolar manic episode while things get really really damaged and like it's very very hard they can't recover from that in the ways they want to then we'd say well let's we're going to use medicine to help this right now of course there are other things too use behavioral changes for example right but there but there's a clear biological role just like we use medicine to stop seizures right but people also have to make sure they're not super sleep deprived there's another part to it too we can use medicine to prevent bipolar episodes but there's another part of self-care involved too but it's it's a role of medicine right”