Did medication help the killers at Columbine, or VA Tech, or Andrea Yates, or others ?
No, in fact the medication itself often causes paranoia, irritability, depression and other ills. Read the side effects sometime, of all the psychotropic drugs.
If you read the full literature on psychiatric diagnoses, esp. those you mention, none of them have any good treatment options. Drugs that might control some of the behaviors often cause other problems, for which more pills are prescribed, and there is absolutely no research on the consequences of the interaction of a variety of these drugs. What is known is not encouraging.
In the context of this article and this author, he has called for a full physical workup before any psychiatric care is started. Did you know, for example, that a lot of physical illnesses cause psychiatric issues ? That thyroid disorders cause, among other things, severe depression ?
So no, I think the psychotropic drugs are, in most cases, as bad as the diagnosis.
I hope that life continues to hand you situations that can be ameliorated by positive thinking, self-determination, hard work, and/or a change of circumstances.
Do you have ANY clue at all?
You do realize that the vast majority of Schizophrenics WHO TAKE THEIR medications lead normal productive lives?
Arguing by anecdote, “ well X took medicine and it didn’t help” is laughable.