Dr. Daniel Amen: Depression is a Symptom, Not a Diagnosis
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🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Daniel Amen (physician, psychiatrist, author, founder of Amen Clinics) shares proven ways to change your brain! He explains what psychiatry is getting right and wrong, his mental health approach from a psychiatric, holistic, and neuroscientific perspective, and the importance of getting to the root cause of any mental health condition. Dr. Amen reveals how mold exposure and traumatic brain injury can contribute to mental illness, how toxins in products and foods can make our bodies work against us, and why he considers happiness to be a moral obligation. He considers why many people are disillusioned by the psychiatric field, the nature of having celebrity clientele and how fame can physically damage the brain, and depression as a symptom and not a diagnosis. Dr. Amen discusses the science of supplements and which ones he recommends taking, why he includes spirituality in his prescriptions, his thoughts on trauma reprocessing in the psychedelic realm, and his preferred forms of therapy.
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| 0:00.0 | Most people don't think their brain can change. Most people think their brain is stuck. You are not stuck. The brain you have, you can think it better. |
| 0:12.0 | People don't think that their brain produces 700 new baby stem cells every day. |
| 0:21.1 | And there is an area called the hippocampus on the inside of your temporal |
| 0:27.0 | lobes and hippocampus is great fors. And every day you make 700 new baby's |
| 0:38.3 | horses stem cells every day. And through your behavior, you're either growing them |
| 0:47.0 | or you're murdering them. |
| 0:50.0 | And nobody thinks like this, every. I'm making my brain better by what I do or I'm making it worse. |
| 0:59.0 | Smallest thing you can do. It'll make the biggest difference. And it's just |
| 1:04.3 | ask yourself this question every day. This is good for my point in the past. And if you can |
| 1:11.1 | answer that with information and love of yourselves, what of your family, |
| 1:17.8 | what the reason, and if you're on the planet, you just start making better decisions. |
| 1:23.0 | Give your mind a name. |
| 1:26.0 | It's based on the concept of gaining psychological distance |
| 1:31.0 | from the noise in the pad. |
| 1:32.0 | That's one of the other, is killing the ants, automatic, |
| 1:37.0 | even thoughts that's to your happiness, you need to discipline your mind, |
| 1:45.0 | train your mind to help you rather than for cheap. |
| 1:49.7 | Of all my patients write down a hundred of their worst and then we take them the process to eliminate |
| 1:57.0 | them or at least go into them and flip them. |
| 2:02.0 | So if you take the worst thought my wife ever listens to me and then |
| 2:08.8 | flip it my wife does listen to me and then go okay so okay, so let's go and get true. |
| 2:15.0 | If you don't question your thoughts, you believe them. |
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