[DoreenMichele]

From what I gather, there are some studies that show that dietary intervention helps and that piece of it seems to boil down to "some foods promote brain inflammation and this makes depression worse."

My personal opinion is that a lot of what gets currently classified as mental illness would be best seen as a somatopsychic side effects of actual physical illness.

I have a really serious and incurable medical condition. Somatopsychic side effects are a big part of my life. In many cases, I have figured out "This specific mental or emotional thing indicates this specific nutrient deficiency." And the treatment ends up being "Eat foods high in that nutrient."

Having said that, I think a large part of mental illness is really "you are a product of your social environment and the world can sometimes be amazingly talented at driving you crazy."

But to whatever degree mental illness has roots in actual biology, I really think it should be viewed as illness not mental illness.

[dexwiz]

Agreed. Recently I have found probiotics to be a correlated with my mood. Stormy thoughts seem to links to my stormy gut.