Bynes on the mend – source
Amanda Bynes is making "significant improvements" while undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital.
Doctors are positive that the 27-year-old actress – whose involuntary psychiatric hold was extended by 30 days on Friday (9 August) and whose mother Lynn was granted a temporary conservatorship over her as she gets back on her feet – will learn to manage her mental illness with time.
A source told FOX411: "Amanda has made significant improvements, she is doing better than she was.
"There are no drug problems involved, it’s all mental. She has deep anger and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), which tripped a psychotic episode… She is very ill, but manageable. Amanda genuinely wants to get better and has wanted to get better for some time."
According to the source, the actress developed PTSD from the pressure she felt as a child star in Hollywood, and added that Bynes has issues with both her parents and is not particularly close to either of them.
Although Bynes’ mother has been granted conservatorship, is is believed to be a temporary "safety valve" until the actress gets her life back on track.
The source told FOX411: "Amanda can’t make important decisions regarding her finances and welfare. But her parents can’t either. Everything still needs to go through Amanda’s lawyer and the judge.
"She is easy to deal with at the moment and agreed to stay (in hospital). While she is doing much better, Amanda needs to be monitored. She is on heavy anti-psychotic drugs and that requires constant medical observation. She wasn’t able to attend the hearing on Friday because at this point in treatment, she should not be moved."
Bynes was taken to a psychiatric facility in California on 22 July after she was arrested for starting a small fire in an elderly woman’s driveway near her home in Los Angeles, and accidently dousing her puppy in gasoline.
However, Bynes’ mother is reportedly eager to move the star to a more private facility, where she feels the star will receive better care.
A source told RadarOnline.com: "It could happen as soon as this week."
