Can You Treat Mental Illness Without a Doctor? with Dr. James Gordon
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
If you suffer from a mental health condition and decide to seek treatment from a psychiatrist, you may have an underwhelming experience. The truth is that most psychiatrists don't give their patients the proper time and attention needed to discover the best methods of treatment for a particular patient. Luckily, there are some things you can do to diagnose and treat these issues on your own. In the second episode of a series with Dr. James Gordon, the Amens and Dr. Gordon tell you how.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body. |
| 0:19.0 | The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aemon Clinics, where we have been transforming |
| 0:25.5 | lives for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your |
| 0:32.0 | brain. |
| 0:32.7 | For more information, |
| 0:34.1 | visit Aaman Clinics.com. |
| 0:35.9 | The Brain Warriors Way Podcast is also brought to you |
| 0:38.7 | by Brain MD, where we produce the highest quality |
| 0:41.6 | neutraceuticals to support the health of your brain and body. |
| 0:45.3 | To learn more, go to brainMD.com. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:50.8 | We're here with psychiatrist, Dr. James Gordon. We're honored to have him on the |
| 0:56.3 | Brain Warriors Way podcast. He's the author of the brand new book, Transformation, Discovering |
| 1:01.7 | Wholeness, and healing after trauma. |
| 1:06.4 | So let's just jump right back into it and talk about some of the symptoms or how would people know? |
| 1:15.0 | Because what I've found is a lot of people will diminish or even deny the trauma. I published diminish the on the difference between PTSD and traumatic brain injury. |
| 1:34.0 | They show up very differently on scans. |
| 1:38.0 | For emotional trauma, we actually see an heightened activation of limbic structures in their brain, |
| 1:46.4 | anterior cingulate, medial thalamus, amygdala, basal ganglia, |
| 1:51.2 | and it looks like a diamond pattern and and that showed up in the studies as |
| 1:56.5 | well with traumatic brain injury we see decreases because you know those circuits have been |
| 2:00.6 | damaged and and what I noticed was I'll see the diamond, |
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