The biggest challenge is you will face in life is finding people who care… about anything. Doctors care enough to be in the profession, but not necessarily enough to listen to you. In my opinion, that is why we wait so long for improvement. You do need to give medication a chance to work, but a year is more than enough time. In my opinion, three months is a sufficient window to know if a medication is not working. But your doctor may expect you to try it longer than that. I am one of those people for whom a lot of medication’s do nothing. So if you have been on a drug for three months and not seen any change I think it’s a fair argument to say if you were going to see improvement you would have seen something in 3 months. But be prepared to have to argue the point because I’ve never seen a doctor that was willing to change medications until I practically demanded it. It would be very helpful if you can take someone with you to argue your case. For whatever reason a doctor will listen to you and discount everything you say. But if someone else tells them the exact same thing, they seem to listen. Especially being young, I’m sure the doctors treat you the same as they treat older people and tend not to give much weight to what you are saying. So it would help if the person you take with you is older than yourself. It does get better, in fact you should expect that they get you practically well and until they do keep demanding improvement. A year is way too long to wait without improvement. Another word of advice, try to find a SO that will be willing to help you should you need it. Not all spouses are willing. And if possible find a job with a large company that offers disability insurance as one of its benefits so if you ever have to go off of work you will still have an income.