The main reason of mental health sickness is wrong thinking pattern. Medication can control the sickness symptoms, but to solve it permanently, a person need to correct their thinking pattern. Spiritual teaching in Buddhism can rectify this.

Most if not all the people, will have some 'error' in their thinking pattern. A lot of times human is stuck at thinking what has already happened in the past, or worrying what's going to happen in the future. This creates a lot of negative emotions, such as anger, disappointment, unsatisfaction, worry, fear in their mind. Some people can 'release' this from their mind, but some are unable to and therefore, create a long term stress on their body and mind and cause mental health problem.

While medication is good at controlling the symptoms, it's much better for mental patients to pursue spiritual thinking because this is the place where they can rectify their thinking pattern.