In 2010, she began with the Paleo diet, excluding dairy, grains, legumes, refined carbohydrates, and vegetable oils. After one year, her bilirubin levels returned to the normal range, her jaundice and constipation resolved, and her migraines reduced to roughly one every two months. Her fatigue and dermatitis, however, persisted. She followed the standard Paleo diet for a total of 20 months.
Treatments and drugs. Your treatment depends on the type of mental illness you have, its severity and what works best for you. In many cases, a combination of treatments works best. If you have a mild mental illness with well-controlled symptoms, treatment from one health care provider may be sufficient. However, often a team approach is appropriate to make sure all your psychiatric, medical and social needs are met. This is especially important for severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia.
The most serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, and schizoaffective disorder are often chronic and can cause serious disability. What we now call mental illness was not always treated as a medical problem.Descriptions of the behaviors now labeled as symptomatic of mental illness or disorder were sometimes framed in quite different terms, such as possession by supernatural forces.e has also argued that the concept of mental illness is based on a confusion. More specifically, Szasz has argued that by definition, âdisease means bodily disease,â (Ibid, p. 74); and, given that the mind is not literally part of the body, disease is a concept that should not be applied to the mind.