Skills or Pills: When Are Antidepressants Right for You?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
For some people, antidepressants can help improve the quality of life. For others, it only makes things worse. In the second episode of the "Skills or Pills?" series, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen tackle depression. They discuss at what point antidepressants are a reasonable choice, and when other natural methods should be tried, such as exercise, nutrition, mediation, or supplements.
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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. |
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| 0:41.6 | neutraceuticals to support the health of your brain |
| 0:44.3 | and body. To learn more go to brainMD.com. Skills or pills we're going to talk about depression. |
| 0:54.0 | What's the one thing you do that boosts your mood quickly? |
| 0:59.8 | We'd love if you post the answer to that question. |
| 1:03.5 | And the use of antidepressants |
| 1:07.1 | has skyrocketed since 1987. |
| 1:11.5 | And that's the year Prozac was approved by the FDA and is it marketing or has |
| 1:18.3 | the level of depression skyrocketed in the United States despite we have more we feel less. |
| 1:28.0 | Right. |
| 1:29.0 | So interesting question because when people just go to their doctor and get on, we've talked about this over and over and over. |
| 1:35.0 | And this is something I've certainly experienced firsthand. |
| 1:38.0 | And I just talked to someone yesterday who experienced the same thing. |
| 1:40.0 | So when I was really depressed, I was 24 and had just gone through all the |
| 1:46.2 | problems with thyroid cancer and then all sorts of other problems as a result of that I |
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