As someone with mental health issues, in my time of talking to counselors, doctors, therapists, mental health people etc., among the various suggestions towards better mental health: diet, is always touched upon. Obviously they have their reasons for suggesting a healthier diet, but I've always felt it was a sort of 'grabbing at straws' kind of suggestion really. I mean why the diet? What about all the counseling and therapy and all the medications and psychotherapies people have been utilising? What's wrong with those? Does all of that suddenly not work properly if you eat Wendy's burgers and fries, or if you like soda and an ice cream at lunch or dinner time? You see what I'm saying? It's nonsensical.🙄

So, in my view, the suggestion of a healthier diet is more of a healthier lifestyle measure with the hopes that somehow your mental health, your depression, your anxiety, your voices and delusions, your various inner struggles of the mind and emotions, will just somehow vanish in a puff of smoke! Or that perhaps with a healthier lifestyle you might be able to cope(?) better through the other inner struggles - I don't know. On it's own, better diet is definitely not a remedy for any mental illness (unless junk food addiction is a mental illness) I'm very sure.

Btw, I've been a vegan for four years now, I eat healthy meals, no sweets except fruit, no sodas and cakes or anything like that, and my mental health issues are still very much a daily challenge. And prior the being vegan my diet was fairly healthy anyway.

The problem is the mind, not the stomach.