text: can i improve the mood of a young adult schizophrenic via nutrition, exercise, anti-stress, better sleep habit   your listed elements for improvement in a schizophrenic young adult are quite ok. but you can help him even more by letting him enjoy romantic movies, melodius music, popular operas, magic shows, circus, sports, fashion shows etc. and by detailing & showing him all positive & colorful features of human life and taking him for outing in unknown places to show him the beauty of the world he is living in. this will definitely help him motivate & let him realize the very  meaning of human life & how colorful the life is!  the state of schizophrenia is the outcome of some kind of frustration.  so, treatment of frustration is the key to its success.