try out the “lemon water,” or any juice fast, one or two days to notice effective loss in pounds. if we think about madness or distress as part of the universal human condition and something that can happen to any of us and none of us can know when we are going to be at time of distress, drugs should be seen as a tool for helping us to get back to a place where we are less distressed rather than as something we need to take to attack the madness in our minds. 