Thanks for your comments, and your encouragement. My girlfriend represents an extreme case. Most people don't get stuck in a well, they fall into ruts. There are many possible ways to get out of a rut, but only one way out of a well.
Most of the contamination of the mental health system has to do with the pharmaceutical industry's lust for profit. My girlfriend's worst treatment was at the hands of the psychiatrists employed by the County's behavioral health hospital.
> I understand your vision, but not how you plan to implement it. you'll have to scale up the process you used for coming up with a treatment plan for your gf.
For the most part, people just need better information so they can better help themselves and their family & friends. I need to experiment some more, make sure the approach generalizes, and fill in the details.
> Also, will you prescribe medications, or will you limit yourself to suggestions (including alternative treatments) that can be fulfilled over the counter?
Most people can get by with what's available OTC. Some of the more useful drugs need a prescription, but it shouldn't be a problem to get them from a reasonable physician, as they are not 'scheduled' (drugs that are frequently abused).
I have an idea for a supplement that I could apply for FDA approval. This would allow me to make claims: "improves memory", etc, and to put it into a more useful form.
> Even in the latter case, you may need some government approval depending on how the process is conducted.
One of the more useful things I've found involves industrial gasses. I have two cylinders in my father's garage. One is easy to obtain anywhere, the other is a custom blend of gasses. I'm paying cylinder rental for the custom blend, and by this point I've paid more for rental than for the gasses inside. (I didn't know the cylinder would be so heavy, or that it'd last so long...)
Years ago I went to an "oxygen bar" in Telluride, Colorado. I didn't notice anything, and now I know that using supplemental oxygen in that manner is not at all beneficial. But the 'air spa' business model is a possibility. For the one cylinder, regulations probably don't apply. The more 'recreational' of the gasses would be a bit of a regulatory minefield. But it'd be good to let people know about that 60-year old book.