I wanted to add that as far as the "face reality" part of the OP, I know that bothered some people but I gotta say that for me personally, there really were a lot of things I needed to learn about myself and about learning to cope with my problems. Again, I'm speaking solely for myself and my personal journey, but my thinking was very skewed from a young age and I had lots of things to work out. That took facing some really hard truths about myself, like I tended to whine a lot and take the easy way out of things and have zero gratitude and focus only on what I lacked in life. I had to learn some things about taking responsibility for my perspective, for making hard changes about how I was going to live my life. So, yeah in a way, I had to face reality. Meds weren't going to fix that for me.
Again, just a reminder I'm speaking of my personal journey.