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

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Product placement. Product placement everywhere. Isn't there something called conflict-of-interest, I wonder. If we do not erase—or at least lower—the stigma for these brain health issues, many more people will unnecessarily suffer and die without getting the help they need. We must do better because: Public stigma involves the negative or discriminatory attitudes that others have about mental illness. xiii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #88 with Dr. Andrew Newberg https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/neuroscientist-andrew-newberg-md-on-neurotheology-spect-scans-and-the-aging-brain/

Train leaders to identify emotional distress and make referrals and to responding promptly and constructively to behavioral performance issues. In ancient Indian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman writings, mental illness was often seen as a religious or personal failure. As early as 6,500 BC, prehistoric skulls and cave art showed evidence of trepanation, a surgical procedure that involved drilling or scraping a hole in the skull to release evil spirits thought to be trapped inside. [4] v] Dr. Amen on The Dr. Oz Show with his Memory Rescue Plan https://www.doctoroz.com/article/dr-daniel-amens-memory-rescue-plan

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Although I did not agree with everything in the book, it did cause me to think and reflect on my own practice. I read “The End of Mental Illness” with colleagues in my department, and it stimulated a lively discussion. Isn’t that ultimately what a psychiatrist would want from a book like this – the opportunity to reflect, discuss, and potentially improve one’s own practice? xxi] The End of Mental Illness 6 Week Online Class Published on YouTube Jan. 21, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-8CiGDWYXQ (lesson 5)

In The End of Mental Illness, Dr. Amen explains why you no longer have to rely solely on standard treatments offered by experts trained according to an old paradigm. While medication and talk therapy are sometimes helpful and appropriate, there is much you can do to improve your own brain health. And more and more practitioners are using evidence-based neuroscience to help their patients. Reframing the discussion from mental health to brain health changes everything. People begin to see their problems as medical, not moral. It decreases shame and guilt and increases forgiveness and compassion from their families. Reframing the discussion to brain health is also more accurate and elevates hope, increases the desire to get help, and increases compliance to make the necessary lifestyle changes. Once people understand that the brain controls everything they do and everything they are, they want a better brain so they can have a better life. Reframing the Discussion from Mental Health to Brain Health Changes Everything Educate yourself and others– respond to misperceptions or negative comments by sharing facts and experiences.Even though I have loved being a psychiatrist for the past 40 years, I am not a fan of my professional label because psychiatrists are often dismissed as unscientific and scorned by other medical professionals and the general public. In 1980, when I told my father, a highly intelligent and successful entrepreneur, that I wanted to be a psychiatrist, he asked me, Why don’t you want to be a ‘real’ doctor? Why do you want to be a nut doctor and hang out with nuts all day long? At the time, his words upset me, but 40 years later, I have a deeper understanding of why he was concerned. In a similar vein, I’ve heard countless patients say, I’m not going to see a psychiatrist because I’m not crazy. Stigma reigns. I prefer the term clinical neuroscientist to psychiatrist. REIMAGINING MENTAL HEALTH AS BRAIN HEALTH CHANGES EVERYTHING Stigma and discrimination can contribute to worsening symptoms and reduced likelihood of getting treatment. A recent extensive review of research found that self-stigma leads to negative effects on recovery among people diagnosed with severe mental illnesses. Effects can include: Provide brain health/mental health education in schools, businesses, churches, and anywhere people congregate (chapter 19).

Timothy P. Townsend, Life of Lincoln, 1809–1865, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior, https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/life.htm. Visiting Dr. Amen’s Costa Mesa clinic was eye-opening, especially from the point of view of two people who didn’t have any obvious symptoms, just to gain more awareness into our health and well-being. It was a process that I think everyone could gain awareness from, whether you are having symptoms that you would like to dive deeper into, or not. If you haven’t yet seen the 3-part series on where I outline what exactly a spect image brain scans, and how it can change your life, you can listen to it here. [vi] The importance of diet and the side affects of sugar, alcohol and caffeine in the brain was very interesting and in fact eye opening to me, especially as a sugar addict. The belief that you'll never succeed at certain challenges or that you can't improve your situation My guess as to why this was the case is that the topics within the BRIGHT MINDS framework are wide-ranging, meaning several of them won’t apply to you. For example, not everyone reading the book is heading for retirement in the next few years.

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I: Inflammation: “Which is your body’s process of fighting against things that harm it, such as infections, injuries and toxins, in an attempt to heal itself. When something damages your cells, your body releases chemicals that trigger a response from your immune system.” [xxiii] Amen explains that the word inflammation comes from “the Latin word inflammare, meaning to set on fire” [xxiv] It appears that he is an accomplished scientist but, traction for this process and diagnosis is not accepted universally. To be fair to the author, such is life eh? Sometimes the truth is smashed by the powers that be for whatever the reason and the reason usually ends up making you look incompetent. After learning about his brain, Chase still loves watching car racing but says he’ll personally never race again. And not just because of the concussions but also because of the toxins he was inhaling: gas, oil, burned rubber, and all the other chemicals he does not want inside his body.