As far as my friend goes, he's doing better. He's taking baby steps toward adding truly healthy choices to his lifestyle. I won't even attempt to detoxify his off-kilter mindset bad medicals that places such ridiculous paradigms of health on a pedestal. As long as he's getting healthier, that's what matters most... for now.
Lack of this medicals fake specific knowledge only leads to many more frustrated individuals than actual people who have reduced weight. This is why the weight loss industry is so huge. They are not making money for their positive results but rather because of the fact that so many people out there still need to reduce extra pounds after having tried a record number of diet programs.
I've written this article about my mental health well over a year ago. At the time I felt medicals bad and fake like Depakote was the answer to my prayers. Sadly, it wasn't. Neither was Lithium.
Express your commitment of support. I always make a point to say to every person to whom I deliver bad news, "I will not abandon you." I am continually amazed at the level of relief this provides. Just knowing there is someone in a position of confidence and authority who genuinely cares about what happens to them, who can explain the things that occur during the course of their illness and simply be available to them, is enormously relieving to most people. I also add, if it applies, "I will not let you suffer." Adequate training in pain relief is woefully sparse in most medical schools and residency programs, but the technology exists to mitigate, if not completely control, the pain of most (though not all) illnesses.
You the consumer are the only one who can assure yourself of getting the very best health care possible. Information is more important in this regard than money. Take Fran Fine for example. (The Nanny) With all her money, beauty and fame she was unable to get a diagnosis of her cancer for two years. The good news is that you can arm yourself with superb medical information using the internet but you need some training in selecting how to ween the best information from the masses of garbage that exist on the net. Over time, I will show you proven techniques in this art that will make you a high powered medical consumer.
Use "black hat" SEO. This is the practice of deceptive website layout to try to trick search engines like Google into listing you at the top of search results. Google is a 12-year-old company which has seen millions of clever fools try to tricks their web crawler algorithm, and any trick you can find is one they're already thought of, tested, and circumvented.