In my view, the ultimate answer is being pro-active in our care, whether it takes the
route of current pharmaceutical trends in research of medications that relieve symptoms
or whether we go with an orthomolecular approach with a combination of holistic
and medications in treatment.

What's important to know is that we are still treating symptoms until we learn (maybe through genetic testing) what the real causes are. If we are students of ourselves, we learn pretty
rapidly what works to help and what to avoid that we have experienced with foods and
medications.

If a doctor tells you that all you need to do is to take an aspirin, I'd be inclined to take it,
frankly, even if it did mean that we had to be very careful about the kidneys in using
aspirin. We so often work around the need to take medications, and I wholeheartedly
agree with that because of knowing how side effects cause such problems for many.

I think stress and wrong foods play a much stronger role than is generally thought in
mental conditions. Stress is a big one.