Podcast 163: Interview with Dr. Amen on ending bipolar disorder, anxiety, and depression

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Episode description:
Mental health is a hot topic these days, especially considering the current COVID-19 pandemic, and the enforced social separation and isolation many of us have experienced over the past several months. Even though things are starting to open in many places, we all are facing a world which is dramatically different to the one we knew before the pandemic—so many things are uncertain, which only exacerbates our collective mental distress.

Thankfully, as I discuss in this week’s blog and podcast with world-renowned psychiatrist, brain specialist and best-selling author Dr. Daniel Amen, there are ways we can take our mental and brain health into our own hands! The human brain is remarkably resilient: over time we can heal our minds and find freedom, purpose and renewal in an imperfect world.

Indeed, Dr. Amen has spent his professional life witnessing this resiliency. As he describes in his excellent new book, The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders, and More, the technological advances in the field of neuroscience have huge strides in our understanding of the brain and what mental distress looks like on a biological level. Rather than just look at someone’s symptoms and giving them a “pill for every ill”, when we take someone’s whole story into account and look at their brain using the latest neuroscientific technology, we can give them practical and powerful tips to find healing on both a mental and physical level.


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Podcast Time Stamps
3:06 How the Vietnam War inspire Dr. Amen’s love for medicine
7:30 ADHD: a story of how one boy overcame his symptoms, and how psychiatry has changed over human history
17:25 Why we need to start changing the current mental health narrative
24:43 What to do to have a healthy brain and love your life
38:10 Why you need to spend time building your brain every day
40:11 Head trauma, brain injuries and mental health
46:27 The best habit for a healthy brain

Read the full blog and transcript here: https://drleaf.com/blogs/news/practic...

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