Amanda Bynes has been showing great progress over the last three months she's been undergoing treatment at a mental facility.
After months of displaying erratic behavior and disturbing tweets, the troubled 27-year-old actress was placed on an involuntarily hold at UCLA's medical center back in July. She was also rumored to have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Now, three months later, the intense treatment seems to be helping the starlet's mental condition improve.
Last month Bynes left UCLA's famed psychiatric center and moved to a luxurious rehabilitation facility in Malibu called The Canyon, reports The New York Daily News. The Canyon, a secluded 120-acre private ranch that treats addiction and psychiatric disorders, offers yoga classes, organic meals, a saltwater pool, equine therapy and a therapeutic sweat lodge, according to its website .
Insiders say that the former child star is now being allowed out of the Malibu-area rehab for supervised outings.
"Amanda is being given two passes a week to go the beach, or out to eat and do things like that, accompanied by a professional handler," an unidentified source told FOX411. "She is making great progress."
According to inside sources at In Touch, Bynes "looks forward to Sunday, when she's allowed to leave the facility with an approved guest," says the source, adding that Amanda chooses paparazzi free spots.
"She has her bad days, but overall, she's doing well," said an insider. However, the source also said that she reluctantly attends family therapy sessions.
"Her relationship with her parents is very strained," says the source, explaining that she resents her parents for letting her illness go untreated for so long. "Amanda dreads seeing them, but she goes."
Nonetheless, the "Hairspray" actress is concentrating on reinventing herself and getting back into society. "She's stable, but she won't be leaving for good anytime soon."
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