Discover A Mind Of Your Own: The Truth About Depression And How Women Can Heal Their Bodies To Reclaim Their Lives Composed By Kelly Brogan Published As Paper Edition
book is well written, easy to read, and I appreciate that Dr, Brogan cites her sources!
Her mission is to empower people specifically women in their health journeys, I find this particularly interesting since she is a psychiatrist and I have not heard many psychiatrists much interested in their clients having self power.
I am glad that she addresses the physical along with the mental a connection between diet and depression is often overlooked.
I do disagree with some of her dietary suggestions, She at one point says that the individual needs to find what works best for her body, but then completely does away with certain foods, like grains.
Grains may not work for some people, but that does not apply to all,
If you are looking to feel empowered to stop taking an antidepressant, then this may be worth the read.
If you are looking for a specific diet, just do a quick google search on paleo/keto diets and youll see the same information.
Its pretty common sense to stop processed foods and caffeine for maximum health so there isnt anything special about her program.
for the diet recommendations
for ease of read and citations
for her mission
Very interesting.
The author follows very good views on the way food effects our brains and there was a lot to agree with but she is extremely against medicines and believes they do more harm than good.
I might agree in some examples though she was pretty adamant across the board, Its not that black and white in my opinion, Antibiotics are way too over prescribed and do a lot of damage to the gut biome, but they also save lives in many cases.
I think her over all suggestions on diet change and life style changes are quite good, and advice to think about statistics and the skewing of them to benefit Big Pharma makes sense as well and people taking medications should really learn more about the pros and cons.
We all tend to take what the doctor gives us without questioning possible damage and long term issues, This is something we all should look into far more deeply, though I do think some medicines are quite helpful,
I would say for the psychology point of view that Johann Haris book Lost Connections: the real causes of Depression goes a bit deeper in that aspect.
This book is body focused where his a bit more mind focused,
Theres useful info here, much of medicine hadnt caught up on how the gut biome seriously effects our brains, but getting past the authors blanket dislike of medications across the board kept this from havingor more.
It is worth a read as it will make you think and does offer a plan to start your body towards healing the mind.
DOTTORESSA UN PAIO DI PXXXE!
Antivaccinista della peggior specie,
Peccato, perché il libro porta buone intuizioni sulla gestione della quotidianità per un depresso,
Ma il capitolo contro i vaccini mi ha fatto flippare il libro giù dalla finestra figurativamente, dato che leggo tramite Kindle.
E c'è da aggiungere anche che gli americani stanno messi davvero male, Su più fronti, uno su tutti quello medico,
Qui un articolo in inglese in cui la pseudodottoressa viene sbugiardata punto per punto: sitelink org/the This is one of the worst 'pseudoscience' books I have ever read, She criticises 'Big Pharma' for using studies with small sample sizes and for failing to control for placebo effects but then the studies she posts as sources for her truly outrageous claims are so completely flawed it's hard to know where to begin in criticising them.
I was hoping for a book that explained some of the science behind depression, and had some of the studies of the recent links between the microbiome and mental health.
What I got was an angry, controversy theorists' rantings about the evils of antidepressants, antibiotics, statins, vaccines and painkillers,
Her healing 'plan' seems to be a version of whole/paleo, with some meditation and exercise thrown in, Though, disclaimer, I quit this bookof the way through because I just couldn't take any more, This book has completely changed my view on psychiatric medicine, When I first dove into this book I had feelings of hopelessness, I had feelings that nothing would work, no one understands and no one has another solution, This book has completely changed my life, It has helped open doors to other possibilities, Kelly's braveness and passion shows in her writing, It's as if she's sitting across the table with you and your the only person she's treating, If you don't read this book you are missing out on some amazing, life changing information, This book is a must read for anyone that is struggling with their mental health or has a loved one that is struggling.
Written by a board certified psychiatrist, Dr, Kelly Brogan "shatters the mythology conventional medicine has built around the causes and treatment of depression, " After reading this shocking book its clear to see that Brogan is a paranoid, cherrypicking conspiracy theorist, with an irrational fear of the FDA and 'Big Pharma'.
She utilises noncredible resources which lack peerreview often citing websites she's PAID to write for herself to bash Western medicine, while presenting a narrow, limited “cure” for depression that in no way takes into account personal circumstances or challenges.
Brogan promotes unnecessary fear and fallacies about Western medicine, the same field from which she profits, by offering her clients expensive services with only anecdotal evidence of her successes, while not once having published any of this data or any papers on the subject.
Brogan liberally promotes pseudoscience and the majority of her 'holistic' therapies have NOT been proven to
be effective otherwise we would call them 'medicine' and often involve costly lifestyle changes that would be impossible and impractical for someone truly suffering from depression to undertake.
Read with caution, Quite fascinating and enlightening. For a nonfiction it is very readable and practically helpful, I had already given up dairy for two weeks before starting it and had seen a remarkable improvement in my allergies.
Now after reading this book I'm taking my allergy testing more seriously and have given up wheat and sugar and flouride toothpaste and am drinking filtered water.
And am going to bed at:pm, I'm very thankful for this book, Different people will get different things from it as she covers a multitude of problems with antidepressants, statins and many other medicines.
This book is a watershed moment an actual Doctor of Psychiatry who says "Pills don't cure depression", I thought depression was due to a chemical imbalance in the brain, I don't know WHY I have always thought this was true a point the author makes by way of explaining that the U.
S. is one of onlycountries on Earth that allow directtoconsumer advertising, This is what the makers of Prozac want us to think despite the fact that not one study inYEARS has proven this to be true.
Dr. Kelly Brogan considers depression to be a symptom, not a diagnosis, And it's a symptom that we should be listening to, not masking with pills that temporarily make us feel better/different/"happy".
I argue, is it really "better" if you can't replicate it without the pill As someone who watched a family member die from acute drug reactions due to being overprescribed by disconnected doctors, I applaud Kelly Brogan for looking beyond the prescription pad, into what's really going on inside the depressed woman's body and mind.
This is a book that goes beyond "fun to read" and into "need to read" territory,edit because people keep liking this review: the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate CCDH listed Kelly Brogan as one of thepeople most responsible for spreading pandemic disinformation.
She profits off of misinformation and people get hurt because of it, :
If you've read this book, that was what she accuses others of, Hypocrite.
edit because people keep liking this review: Looking at her twitter feed she's part of the COVID"pandemic is fake to control you crowd".
Her wikipedia page mentions her controversies: sitelink wikipedia. org/wiki/KellyB .
When I first read her book I thought it was interesting because I saw some ideas I hadn't seen other places but as I learned more about her worldview I understood why I didn't see the info in other places.
I still catch myself repeating ideas I read from her book, even though I now seriously question how she arrived to her conclusions.
This book made me stupider,
Originalreview:
This book is a rollercoaster of "oh wow that's really interesting" to "oh wow, what a nutjob".
I liked the beginning where she dissects big pharma and how they play with studies to sell pills, the analysis of the placebo effect.
There's some good stuff in there like how the average depressive episode lasts up toweeks, depression is the mind channeling all its resources to cognition to figure something out, and SSRIs can actually diminish the benefits of exercise on improving mental mood so healthy people telling someone with depression to try exercise isn't actually that helpful.
There was also an interesting discussion on how SSRIs actually push your brain in the wrong direction as seen by newer studies on serotin update enhancers and that the benefit may just be because your brain is fighting so hard to account for this.
I'm in agreement that the newer theories that inflammation in your body can cause depression as a side effect are interesting, especially the studies on mice where changing gut bacteria changed their mood which I've seen referenced in several books now.
But then she lost me, when she went into the deepend antivaxxer, antigmo, organic everything, detoxification "take an loumfa and rub it over your body every two days" etc.
Somehow this is a more extreme version of sitelinkThe Microbiome Diet: The Scientifically Proven Way to Restore Your Gut Health and Achieve Permanent Weight Loss.
It made me appreciate how sane and balanced sitelinkI Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life and sitelinkMy Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind were.
I liked the part where she talked about how hand sanitizers thin your skin, kill your external friendly bacteria and make you more susceptible to getting sick.
But it's kind of interesting about how all the discussion of placebo effect and scientific rigor that was applied to "bad" big pharma in the beginning isn't also applied to the "good" holistic approaches.
Isn't there also a placebo effect going on with holistic approaches
It also reminded me of the theory of capture from sitelinkCapture: A Theory of the Mind where he suggested that one cure from when the mind becomes captured on an unhealthy idea depression, addiction, anxiety is replacing it with a different capture.
In this case Kelly Brogan seems to be trying to create an obsession with a "natural/holistic" lifestyle, And honestly if you tried to follow all of the advice in her book you would be so focused on your food and environment that there'd be no way you'd still have time for rumination.
I think it's telling that all the selected quotes for the book are in the parts in the beginning where she takes down big pharma.
But the arguments of what to replace it with don't have weight,
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So if depression isnt a disease, then what is it As I briefly mentioned in the introduction, depression is a symptom, a vague surface sign at best that doesnt tell you anything about its root cause.
Consider, for a moment, that your toe hurts, Any number of things can cause a toe to hurt, from physically injuring it to a bunion, blister, or tumor growing inside.
The hurting is a sign that something is wrong with the toe, simple as that, Likewise, depression is the hurting its an adaptive response, intelligently communicated by the body, to something not being right within, often because things are also off in our environment.
In a seminalpaper, “Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States” Moncrieff and her coauthor write: “Our analysis indicates that there are no specific antidepressant drugs, that most of the shortterm effects of antidepressants are shared by many other drugs, and that longterm drug treatment with antidepressants or any other drugs has not been shown to lead to longterm elevation of mood.
We suggest that the term antidepressant should be abandoned,
Six decades of study, however, have revealed conflicting, confusing, and inconclusive data,
Thats right: there has never been a human study that successfully links low serotonin levels and depression, Imaging studies, blood and urine tests, postmortem suicide assessments, and even animal research have never validated the link between neurotransmitter levels and depression.
In other words, the serotonin theory of depression is a total myth that has been unjustly supported by the manipulation of data.
Much to the contrary, high serotonin levels have been linked to a range of problems, including schizophrenia and autism,
According to Andrews, when patients on SSRI medication improve, it appears that their brains are actually overcoming the effects of antidepressants, rather than being helped by them.
The drugs are interfering with the brains own mechanisms of recovery,
He and his colleagues challenge the whole notion of relapse, suggesting that when you feel terrible upon stopping an antidepressant, what youre experiencing is withdrawalnot a return of your mental illness.
And when you choose the medication route, youre actually extending the duration of your depression,
To really grasp the fact that depression is not a disorder primarily rooted in the brain, look no further than some of the most demonstrative studies.
When scientists purposefully trigger inflammation in the bodies of healthy people who exhibit no signs of depression by injecting them with a substance more on this shortly, they quickly develop classic symptoms of depression.
fullypercent of the genetic material in your body is not your own, It belongs to your microbial comrades, These microbes not only influence the expression of our DNA, but research reveals that throughout our evolution microbial DNA has become part of our own DNA.
In other words, genes from microbes have inserted themselves into our genetic code mitochondrial DNA being the prime example to help us evolve and flourish.
Dietary change is step one, because we can change the microbiota dominance within seventytwo hours of simple changes to eliminate potential triggers to the immune system and rebalance the gut flora.