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A review by marianfrick
A Mind of Your Own: The Truth about Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives by Kelly Brogan, Kristin Loberg
1.0
I had to stop reading this when the author began to talk about the vaccine-autism “research,” which has been so profoundly blown out of the water that I don’t even know why I am wasting time typing these words. She opens the book by bashing the medical establishment with some shaky research and op-ed pieces not to mention meaningless anecdotes, then spends the rest of the book essentially making herself THE arbiter of all things mental and physical health, citing the very medical establishment she vilifies, when it suits her. Wow, who knew that you could be a gastroenterologist, microbiologist, psychiatrist, and natural healer all in one? She manages somehow to simultaneously shit on, and take pretty big clinical pearls from, the medical establishment. So much contradiction here.
The author has some good points – – get good sleep, eat healthy whole foods, exercise, meditate, and know that we have been misled it comes to psychiatric medications. But the fact that this is her magic bullet to depression? Unbelievable. Or the fact that she thinks that this advice is somehow original? OK, Kelly. Worst of all, this book caters to upper middle-class women and seems to exclude the millions of women who have depression related to and or stemming from traumatic experiences. I gladly invite her to “cure” (and she does say that she can “completely” cure depression) my clients who have PTSD with turmeric because of its “anti-inflammatory properties.“ She makes wildly hyperbolic claims. Great idea to encourage some of my low income clients, who don’t have a decent grocery store within 20 miles of their homes, to pick up some kombucha to “fix their micro biomes.” GTFO.
We always need to be questioning what we are reading and hearing, remain open to new ideas, practices, and critiques of current practices. However this author has gone off the deep end. You know the reputations that many psychiatrists get (despite the fact that most are incredibly conscientious)? It’s people like her that give them these reputations as people who are crazy themselves.
Lastly, the self-aggrandizement is ENDLESSLY nauseating.
The author has some good points – – get good sleep, eat healthy whole foods, exercise, meditate, and know that we have been misled it comes to psychiatric medications. But the fact that this is her magic bullet to depression? Unbelievable. Or the fact that she thinks that this advice is somehow original? OK, Kelly. Worst of all, this book caters to upper middle-class women and seems to exclude the millions of women who have depression related to and or stemming from traumatic experiences. I gladly invite her to “cure” (and she does say that she can “completely” cure depression) my clients who have PTSD with turmeric because of its “anti-inflammatory properties.“ She makes wildly hyperbolic claims. Great idea to encourage some of my low income clients, who don’t have a decent grocery store within 20 miles of their homes, to pick up some kombucha to “fix their micro biomes.” GTFO.
We always need to be questioning what we are reading and hearing, remain open to new ideas, practices, and critiques of current practices. However this author has gone off the deep end. You know the reputations that many psychiatrists get (despite the fact that most are incredibly conscientious)? It’s people like her that give them these reputations as people who are crazy themselves.
Lastly, the self-aggrandizement is ENDLESSLY nauseating.