Adapted from A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan, MD Psychiatry: A Very Special Specialty Psychiatry, unlike other fields of medicine, is based on a highly subjective diagnostic system. Essentially you sit in the office with a physician, and you are labeled based on…
Adapted from A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan, MD If you’re diagnosed with depression, then chances are you can relate to any of the following: persistent distress, malaise, anxiety, inner agitation, fatigue, low libido, poor memory, irritability, insomnia, sense of hopelessness, and feeling…
Adapted from A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan, MD When I talk about medicine and mental health to large audiences, I often start with the following imagery and facts: think of a woman you know who is radiantly healthy. I bet your intuition…
By Kelly Brogan, MD The following are four principal tenets that may undermine your current understanding of the efficacy and safety of antidepressant medication. For more information like this, please check out Dr. Kelly Brogan’s new book, A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About…
By Kelly Brogan, MD Psychiatry is notorious for saying “oops!” for a long history of abusing patients with pseudoscience-driven treatments and its shameful lack of diagnostic rigor. From the 1949 Nobel Prize for therapeutic lobotomy to theRosenhan experiments in the 70s which exposed the invalidity of…
By Kelly Brogan, MD Sometimes, it just takes one case to bring an entire medical construct to its knees. Because if the current model can’t encompass it, then the model must evolve to accommodate the seeming outlier. Currently, psychiatry is in a freefall. With its…
By Kelly Brogan, MD A silent tragedy in the history of modern health care is happening right now in America, but no one is talking about it. We have been told a story of depression: that it is caused by a chemical imbalance and cured…
By Catherine J Frompovich Something of pharmaceutical concern that the holistic/alternative medical community and the alternative press have been alleging for numerous years now, finally is being confirmed by a British Medical Journal paper published January 27, 2016. Professor Peter C Gotzsche, MD, and several…
