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.
Schizophrenia and other types of psychoses -- among the most severe forms of mental illness -- carried the highest mortality rates across the studies. But, Olfson noted, conditions such as major depression and anxiety disorders are far more common, and they also appeared to shorten people's lives. Overall, the analysis found, people with mental health conditions were more than twice as likely to die over roughly 10 years, versus people without the disorders. Their risk of death from unnatural causes -- including suicide and accidents -- was seven times higher.