Kelly Brogan, M.D. is a Manhattan-based holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the book, A Mind of Your Own and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, and has a B.S. from MIT in Systems Neuroscience. She is board certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine, and is specialized in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. She is on the board of GreenMedInfo, Functional Medicine University, Pathways to Family Wellness, NYS Perinatal Association, and Fisher Wallace, Medical Director for Fearless Parent, and a board member for Health Freedom Action and the peer-reviewed, indexed journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine.
We dive into topics like
- Kelly’s first wake up call while writing prescriptions
- What happened when she was faced with an illness and realizing she didn’t want to take medication for the rest of her life
- How we only learn through lived experience
- Some astounding facts about the psychopharmacology industry
- The abundance of available data and the many versions of the truth to choose from
- The need for reinvention in medicine and science
- The courtship that happens in the pharmaceutical companies
- The story we are told about depression
- The myth that depression needs to be “fixed” as a chemical imbalance
- How almost 3/4 or people taking anti-depressants don’t even meet psychiatric criteria
- Depression is the non-specific manifestation of your body’s attempt to adapt
- Some of the outdates metrics used to assess health in psychiatry
- You have all that you need to heal yourself
- Shifting into a space of surrender and trust
- In being less productive, you are more productive
- Hearing the collective call to shift
- What Kelly sees as the future of the industry
- Aligning with what makes the most sense to you
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“When you know better, you do better.”
– Maya Angelou
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