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A 21-year-old female patient had an onset of hallucination and disturbed sleep with bad dreams in 2018. She immediately consulted a psychiatrist, and the provisional biomedical diagnosis made was schizophrenia. She started psychiatric drugs as prescribed by the doctor. She developed associated symptoms like whole body shivering due to unknown fear, hair fall, puffiness of the face and weight gain. Despite taking psychiatric drugs, over a period of 3 years, the symptoms were on and off. So, she approached Dr Jyoti Joshi for ayurvedic management. The ayurvedic diagnosis was unmada. The line of treatment followed was unmada cikitsa sutra, amahara and kapha shamana. With the Ayurveda treatment, the dose of psychiatric medicines could be tapered down in 4 months and completely stopped in 6 months. She got complete relief from her symptoms and all the ayurvedic medicines were stopped after 6 months. She is advised to come for regular follow ups.