Alternative Mental Health and Orthomolecular Alternatives to Psychiatry
In 1960, the Nobel Prize winning chemist, Linus Pauling, coined the term “orthomolecular” to express the idea of the right molecules in the right amounts. His contemporary, Abram Hoffer, a Canadian psychiatrist, suggested and demonstrated that optimum molecular concentrations of naturally occurring substances in the human body were essential to maintaining optimum mental health in humans. This field called orthomolecular medicine has become the alternative to psychiatry and has grown into a wider discipline of alternative mental health which use other methods besides drugs to establish mental health
Alternative Mental Health
Alternative Mental Health includes all non-psychiatric drug techniques and alternatives to psychiatry for establishing and maintaining mental health. Many times, this involves discovering the medical reasons why a person is suffering such as adrenal burnout, thyroid and other hormone issues, chemical toxicity, infectious diseases and so on. Other alternative methods include learning what neurotoxins a person may have and removing them, counseling with collaborating therapists, high grade orthomolecular nutrition and supplements attuned to the individual and avoiding allergens, neurochemical repair, life and spiritual coaching, and properly pampering the body with massage, ionic foot baths, acupuncture, and sauna. The participants live in a residence that is markedly different than a sterile clinical environment. We are an educational facility for our residents and the greater community, teaching persons the art of self-mental health care.
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Alternative Mental Health includes all non-psychiatric drug techniques and alternatives to psychiatry for establishing and maintaining mental health. Many times, this involves discovering the medical reasons why a person is suffering such as adrenal burnout, thyroid and other hormone issues, chemical toxicity, infectious diseases and so on. Other alternative methods include learning what neurotoxins a person may have and removing them, counseling with collaborating therapists, high grade orthomolecular nutrition and supplements attuned to the individual and avoiding allergens, neurochemical repair, life and spiritual coaching, and properly pampering the body with massage, ionic foot baths, acupuncture, and sauna. The participants live in a residence that is markedly different than a sterile clinical environment. We are an educational facility for our residents and the greater community, teaching persons the art of self-mental health care.
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