Don't separate the mind from the body.  Don't separate even character - you can't.  Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously.
Disease is one of our languages.  Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself.  It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

See, this is what I hate about Prozac, I said.  My life is terrible, so I should take Prozac and feel better about it even though it's still terrible?