I have not had acupuncture for mental health issues BUT some years ago I was having kidney infections that were basically ruining my life. I was having to live on very harsh antibiotics; even so, the kidney infections kept happening. Western medicine just wasn't helping me. Finally a friend suggested acupuncture. I didn't really believe it would help, but I went anyway. To my surprise the acupuncture did help, I felt pretty great, and have not had another kidney infection since I had my treatments. So I do recommend acupuncture.