Thousands of people around the world have recovered from mental health conditions and now enjoy the simple pleasures of a drug-free life. Most were told this was impossible. Yet we hear from these individuals regularly.

Our site has testimonials, over 100 articles, and the Web’s only directory of alternative mental health practitioners. You can also get information from our support groups and newsletters. We hope you find the answers you have been looking for.

For the past two centuries, the treatment of presenting mental health conditions has been the province of that branch of medicine called psychiatry. The most common treatments psychiatry has offered in the past fifty years have indicated   use of prescription psychoactive drug  and electroshock therapy.

This page contains an extensive list of 80 actions – complete with many links and scientific references – that a person can do at no cost to improve mental health.