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I have a few old friends who are "mental" and have been on various medications and "treatments" but for the most part to me they are normal unless you treat them like an utter cunt or box them off, have seen them take break ups and stresses from work worse than most but the idea of some doctors that they should then instantly jack them up on pills is crazy in itself.
I don't know if it applies to more people but lots of the issues with the pills for them are a kinda as the dose passes the body over compensates on the way back to it's normal(which the doctor feels is out) and then until the next dose they are even more away from the normal the doctor wants which can make some up the dose and then you get either a vicious cycle of ups and downs or a zombie(I'm sorry if there is a better way of putting that but it's sadly true) as they become over medicated 24/7.
Very firm views that diet and lifestyle have a huge impact on mental health and related aspects of life. The body has so many complex ways in which it breaks down and takes in food/drinks/substances which I'm sure go far beyond the simple things like getting hyper off a bunch of sugar. The body can also produce it's own chemicals/stimulants/whatever and lifestyle can put the body into the conditions it needs to churn out things that are good/bad for someones natural offset from "the norm". If you take for example a pro cyclist then a diet and lifestyle could all be geared towards boosting testosterone and junk which inturn could help an aggressive offset grow, on the other hand you could have someone who is the same but the aggressive part is totally nurfed by a lifestyle that produces some other stuff instead like regular meditation or being a book worm.
I'm sure it isn't an exact science that you can't just perscribe a new lifestyle overnight, someone more into that field most likely has a study showing a large improvment for people using a voluntary outreach program in say arts and then a huge decline as it switched to referals. I'm also sure with the way things work that some people will have rare unknown/unchecked conditions in which the body has it backwards somewhere so what for the 99.99% produces x, y and z might only produce y and z with unexpected results or even produce a, b and c to make a real mess.