Anika, I think you're right again. People recover, in my view, by having a number of things happen: they discover their faulty diet and correct it and then proceed to make changes in their personal lives--either correcting financial deficiencies or emotional environmental triggers.

Some have found real clarity and peace in following a spiritual lifestyle.

Getting into a healthy place emotionally and psychologically and being without the side effects of drugs, able to support oneself, and to love oneself all lead to a strong inclination to develop good mental health.

In this day and age, I think many people are making those strides to accomplish recovery from psychotropic drugs.

A shift in psychiatric research from pharmaceutical symptom relief to actual changes in brain function and use of foods in the digestive system (which has by far the largest concentration of neurotransmitters)may enable bipolar patients to get beyond the need for psychotropic medications. That's a goal to accomplish, in my view.

There are research projects (one in Philadelphia, as I recall Dr. Wiliams' mentioning) in which schizophrenic patients became mentally healthy after the removal of wheat from their diets.

And there is at least one psychiatrist who has given up a career in psychiatry because of the severe side effects that psychotropic medications have. He has written a book about it, but I his name eludes me at the moment. Maybe someone who has read his book will mention it on this forum.

Hope you are well, Anika.