Dr. Daniel Amen: Depression is a Symptom, Not a Diagnosis

Dr. Daniel Amen (physician, psychiatrist, author, founder of Amen Clinics) shares proven ways to change your brain! He explains what psychiatry is getting right and wrong, his mental health approach from a psychiatric, holistic, and neuroscientific perspective, and the importance of getting to the root cause of any mental health condition. Dr. Amen reveals how mold exposure and traumatic brain injury can contribute to mental illness, how toxins in products and foods can make our bodies work against us, and why he considers happiness to be a moral obligation. He considers why many people are disillusioned by the psychiatric field, the nature of having celebrity clientele and how fame can physically damage the brain, and depression as a symptom and not a diagnosis. Dr. Amen discusses the science of supplements and which ones he recommends taking, why he includes spirituality in his prescriptions, his thoughts on trauma reprocessing in the psychedelic realm, and his preferred forms of therapy.
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[@JaniceAJanice]

Audio was bad 😣, too much echo and hissing. Hard to understand him. 😐

[@m_brokenleg]

Yes! I thought it was me..bc I’m not an English native person

[@sarahdesmitt5640]

Agreed.

[@elisabethkarin]

They should redo the audio because the message is important

[@curseofcontext]

the automated subtitles do help, they aren't 100% accurate but it clears up some uncertainties here and there

[@ilgridiron1]

I had to give up in the first eight minutes. A microphone in an echo chamber would be easier to hear

[@jenniferstone2975]

Watch Dr Amen’s TED Talk about traumatic brain injury. I have watched it several times. As a medical professional, his insights have made a huge difference in my patient care. Thank you! ❤

[@paigegainey7099]

I recently fell and it’s changed me. I passed out face first on pavement.m, I also had a prior slip and back of the head. It’s unnerving when you’re a smart person and have trouble putting thoughts in order. I’m angry a lot and need to get through it. Hoping that I will find tools here ❤

[@mariahconklin4150]

Right? Isn’t he wonderful? Love this guy

[@spaceynoby]

I went to one of Dr. Amens clinics 3 years ago and it changed my life!! Getting a SPECT scan was so helpful, and I found out I had been misdiagnosed for years, and was able to know how to heal, where to begin. Now, it is expensive, and i could only do it with it help, but it genuinly helped me heal. So I believe it was worth every single penny! Thanks for the interview Mayim, and for asking the right questions to get such specific answers from Dr. Amen!

[@arctic-athlete6013]

I didn't find it helpful for me at all but I'm glad it was a positive experience for you.

[@mariahconklin4150]

How much did you pay?

[@agnesmilewski]

omg, I literally had a conversation with a friend yesterday where I said "I think depression is actually a symptom of something else, not a diagnosis", and 24 hours later you make a video with the exact same title. The stars must have aligned or something :D Thank you!

[@mariahconklin4150]

Well it’s true! It’s something else like for me i haven’t had any motivation at all and I think part of it is due to weed and Abilify

[@altaresjoyceee]

Depression is a symptom not a diagnosis. I now have a better understanding of what depression actually is after watching this episode. Its nice to see Jonathan again and listen to his insightful ideas ☺️ Your insights is very beneficial (well, both of you). Thank you for this new episode this week Miss Mayim and Jonathan! Miss Mayim, I am thinking that a lot is still going on, just wanted to say this again, i love you and i support you in all that you do. Please take care always 🫶🏻 Thank you again for this new episode MBB Team! ❤️ Take care!

[@michellelani613]

Thank you Mayim for doing this episode! I reached out Dr. Amen's clinic for support and would really like to do the work with his therapy and skills. However, it's out of reach monetarily. The brief chat I had with his staff was so fulfilling and disheartened me at the same time since it wasn't something I could pursue for my mental health needs. This episode spoke to me on a magnified level that I'm speechless. I'm truly inspired by you, am a fan of your acting career and the work that you do here. Thank you for your enlightenment that you provide on your podcasts and channels.

[@rijd2304]

In the book 30 Days to Reduce Depression by Harper Daniels the author does a good job giving mindfulness exercises to show that we are not "depressed" but "experiencing depression." By saying "I am depressed" a person is subconsciously attaching to the depression experience. It helps to be mindful of this and detach from the experience...to watch and observe the depression without judgment.

[@marisamartinezolivera]

Traumatic Brain. My mom’s perfect example. She was for years misdiagnosed and spent years taking Benzos. She was one with easy temper explossions, sudden changes of humor that prones her to quick sadness, a quite difficult person to deal with. Even began to explain different “living universes”. We joke between us about if she’s having a “String Theory disease”. Sadly we’d her correct diagnose by a young and clever psychiatrist..only one year before her dead and when her state was deteriorating quickly: she had an strange dementia called Reduplicative Paramnesia due to a serious brain injury at her 40’s. Asking myself now if that good young doc had read Dr. Amen books Excellent episode. Again. Take care!💙

[@fishonshay]

I no longer take pharmaceuticals nor do I consume anything with chemicals and I am the healthiest I have ever been. Before I made changes to my lifestyle I had lupus symptoms and was diagnosed with ADHD and autism to now being told I was miss diagnosed. Also I no longer need glasses since wearing them since I could walk. This has been my experience and it can be others as well but it takes time and patience. Thank you again for making this podcast 💜🎣❣️❣️

[@sherrybutts5947]

Is addiction a kind of molding of thought

[@nicolewilliams2468]

I really liked this guest; he made a lot of sense. Thank you for having him!

[@creatingahomesteadincolora2919]

Wow! I describe my youth as a violent bubble. Mayim, this video confirmed for me that although it's not well received, my reaction(training my brain&thoughts) through my childhood saved me, saved my thoughts and my brain from darkness, dependency, or even death. I'm now 53. I've had to have 12 surgeries and live with pain everyday. I do not use conventional pharmaceuticals to dull it. I use my brain. I use very strategic movements. I manage my expectations of myself. Inside my brain I'm very happy. Happy to be alive. When it comes to interacting with social issues and the constantly changing standards of society i struggle. Enough to inspire me to get away from it. I live away from society. It's hard, but worth the investment into the mental health of myself and my offspring. Thank you for this video, may you all have a healthier today.

[@Lisamonty27]

I haven't been here for a while - what a great interview to return to! The sound was a bit muddled on the Doctor's side, but still a fantastic and informative show. My bright, kind, personable, beautiful older son has developed a particularly nasty "form" of Bipolar disorder, which affects our whole family almost daily in countless ways. He has had at least 3 concussions, likely more. I would love to be able to send him to the Amen Clinic ❤😢

[@amt9289]

I am getting a follow up Brian scan in Jan or Feb 2024. I had cancer and it went through the blood barrier. Ended up with a tumor growing around my cerebellum,Stage I V. That was 2019-2020. Well I am alive and well.

[@karlaober3474]

Love your podcasts! Unfortunately, the sound is so bad on this one with Dr, Amen, with echoes and hisses that I can't follow his voice and understand the words he's saying.

[@kimfernandez330]

I had the same problem

[@kathythompson9931]

Me too!

[@vickidickinson2888]

I had trouble as well so I used CC as much as I could. Enjoyed this podcast.

[@carriemarie7535]

Please fix the audio. I would love to listen to this important message, but the audio is not clear & I can’t hear it well enough to follow. I look forward to a re-release with clear audio.

[@curtisrobinson7962]

I was thinking if he had brought some upholstered furniture into the room it may have helped. Bummer.

[@user-mz8ek1sn4f]

Great interview, Mayim! I have comparable views to yours, starting in my twenties (now 70 years young), by paying attention to ingredients in foods, but also with other products like cleaning products, makeup, detergents, etc…. It’s really nice to hear professionals, such as Dr Amen and yourself talk about these subjects so people can start paying more attention to their health and well-being. If people stop buying the unhealthy stuff, companies will be forced to change their products to a healthier version. Thanks!

[@carolbrady2482]

I think that your interview with Dr. Amen was excellent. You asked many of the questions I would have asked. My mind's name is Sherlock because it is my mind castle; it has fallen down during times in my life, but as I have gotten older it is my peace. I am a therapist with two masters and two doctorates in Clinical and Geropsychology (my addiction was school, don't judge me 😊. I practice holistically with clients, the 4 circles he mentioned. Johnathan is correct, I tell my clients that choices are key and life is balance. Love the channel! Keep up the good work!

[@tiffanitus]

I loved your guys breakdown at the end. Discussing how hard it is to just strip down all the bad things we are offered daily is over whelming. But Jonathan made a great point of looking at it in a bigger lens. Is what we are constantly doing giving us negative results. Then small changes might be worth it.

[@FutureMemories2024]

I totally get what Jonathan is saying. His worst fear is the same thing I struggle with. But overall, this was a very insightful interview! I often know the right things to do, but it seems to take the fun out of life in regards to eating better, etc. Maybe I just need to redefine what my definition of fun is.

[@orland0110]

I really enjoyed listening to this interesting conversation with Dr. Daniel Amen regarding the topic of depression. Many people, including myself, can learn a lot from watching this particular episode since so many people get treated for depression and anxiety has well. Keep up the excellent work this podcast Mayim! ❤

[@lpgirl]

Such an interesting conversation with Jonathan and you at the end of the show. Thanks for being so open.

[@LowriSeren]

I live in the UK, and after years of feeling either a bit "low" (my good days) or thinking about ending it all (my bad days) I finally mustered up the courage to go and see my GP. I was in that office for literally four minutes and came out of it with a prescription for an SSRI and a diagnosis of "it sounds like you're depressed"... and that was it. The waiting list for NHS therapy is over 3yrs long - not that my GP even offered it to me. Thankfully I have the money to arrange my own therapy, so I've been doing that every two weeks. I totally agree with Dr Amen's logic and research... but it's frustrating that his knowledge is so so far away from being a part of published doctor's guidelines for approaching depression. My GP just asked if I was going to kill myself and then printed off the script for Sertraline and later Mirtazapine. The very thought of making another GP appointment to ask my doctor if I can have an MRI to look at my brain is totally laughable and simply would not happen. I guess it just makes me even more grateful for books like Dr Amen's that I can at least teach myself the theory of why I am not being treated correctly for my depression. Shock - my SSRI makes me feel no better.

[@gothikgrlblack1733]

You would not get an MRI to look at your brain unless something like an aneurysm or tumour was suspected. It's expensive and the NHS is not funded well enough at the moment.

[@LowriSeren]

@@gothikgrlblack1733 Yep, absolutely. No chance whatsoever as emergency use understandably gets priority

[@michelep.7249]

In the past I had a lot of depressive thoughts with some suicidal ideation. I discovered mantra meditation by reading "Meditation for Dummies" a little over 20 years ago. I started writing out my negative thoughts and would come up with a positive mantra to contradict this negative thinking. I spent 45 minutes a day 5 days a week focusing on this mantra and every time my mind wandered I would focus on this mantra. Every week I would change my mantra. In a few weeks I noticed I felt a lot calmer and happier. After doing my mantra meditation a year and a half I noticed overall my thoughts were a lot less negative and I now rarely have suicidal ideation. Mantra meditation did wonders for me and I highly recommend it.

[@AndreaPalmer-hi8xq]

I attempted su!c!de on those meds!!

[@claredunn757]

I just started watching your podcast and it is really amazing! I love the review and discussion at the end to help me absorb all the information. I have long covid and it has affected my anxiety, and other issues mentally and physically. I can relate to this topic 100 percent and I have found progress with in working from a place of trying to find solutions in lifestyle, to be an advocate. I would love to see any segments on long covid and how it can contribute to changes in the brain, and health. I can't wait to see more from your podcast. You ask great questions, and dig deeper to really make a meaningful interview with great take aways.

[@HiddenCharmhome]

I took my son and myself to the DC amen clinic years ago for spect scans and time with the doctors. While I find the scans fascinating, the diagnosis were wrong on every count and meds Prescribed were absolutely wrong. This was about 15+ years ago though. I hope things have changed since then

[@kerryramirez6994]

I must first preface this with, quite a bit of what he says about the increased need for neurological research in psychology and that psychology was done a disservice when it was separated from neurology in the early stages of medicine. Much of what I do as a practicing psychiatric NP is applied neurology and parsing out the sources of a person’s symptoms. That said, I find some things highly problematic. One, psychology is constantly working to improve the understanding of brain and yes, neuroscience is supporting many diagnoses and not so much others. But to claim that there is no science or understanding of the brain as an organ is reductive at best. Two, he is extrapolating a lot from patients who have vastly different experiences and resources from the average patient, much less the profoundly affected person with severe mental health diagnoses. Not everyone comes with support systems and resources. Third, the research just doesn’t support infectious diseases being the source of any significant numbers of people with mental health diagnoses. That is not to say it doesn’t happen, but the numbers don’t add up as a major source. And last, most of the listed interventions are sadly coming from a place of privilege. Supplements can be beneficial and I do recommend them, but not all people can afford them. Eating well and even fresh fruits and vegetables tend to be difficult for people who live in urban food deserts. When you do not have access to healthy, nonproccessed foods telling a patient to eat healthy is condescending at best. Even reading can be a barrier for someone who received a poor or partial education. And very last- NIMH has actually released a statement supporting the DSM as the gold standard for diagnostic criteria but that the move away from DSM in research is to actually broaden the categories for research not as a commentary against the DSM. (Edit: Grammar because I was too irritated to proofread first.)

[@m.argot.standaert]

Yes, finally someone who said it!

[@CherishMichaelPHD]

Thank you again for this wonderful podcast. I needed this episode on so many levels. Keep being you - your work brings me happiness. Science, art, and lionheart justice. I hope others benefit as much as I do. Great episode about the power of our minds Thank you Dr. Daniel Amen as well.

[@MsModesTy7]

This is awesome. Already enjoying this!

[@yessicavelez472]

You have to get Pink, please

[@lisaayres2368]

Excellent interview, Mayim you did an awesome job of asking all the right questions. Very informative. I'm getting his book. I had some very traumatic experiences in childhood. I still have flashbacks. I have also been exposed to mold in different places where I've lived. Never made the connection to depression. I've been on many, many, MANY anti anxiety and depression pharmaceuticals. Some help for awhile then I build a tolerance to them and dosages are increased. They are not helpful over time and have bad side effects. I'm inspired to make some changes and seek therapy again specifically for childhood trauma. I hope Dr. Amen has a clinic in Colorado. Thanks again for all the great information.

[@warmhug84]

Really cool video! It's interesting to see how our daily habits can affect our brain health. Love the part about turning negative thoughts into positive ones. It’s good to know that small changes can make a big difference. Great info, thanks for sharing!

[@janesu9813]

Thank for sharing

[@triciahoyt5854]

So good.. thank you for this.. God bless you ❤️much love

[@Supporthearts]

Agreed, I’m going to have to read the transcript. I really want to know what he has to say.

[@safourasalami]

Put on subtitles for better understanding... Thanks for sharing 👍 ❤❤❤

[@davidtodd3435]

Mayim is really amazing and really knows how to listen and talk with people. She’s only the few people that’s very passionate and an understanding person.

[@CutieWarrior-ol8ik]

This guy is amazing. I lerned so much today. I never heard of the brainscan. But i want to try it. It seems you can find out many things about yourself that way

[@cindystauffer3242]

Fantastic segment with Dr. Amen!

[@shirleysalerno9568]

Depression is not this easily bypassed. I wish it were.

[@sparkythancztwise]

only some types and degrees of experienced depression perhaps

[@tiptapkey]

My question to this guy is what is he doing to make brain scans more available to patients and accepted in the medical community? Or is he just making as much money as he can off only the concept of it, knowing that most of us will never have the ability to find a doctor who will do a brain scan and (even more unlikely) set up a treatment plan based on how our brains look?

[@alexandreleite2541]

You have an excellent point. My health insurance does not cover it.

[@m.argot.standaert]

In my country getting a brain scan and such isn't that uncommon. They won't do it for mental health disorders tho, but many people have gotten a brain scan due to telling their doctor about headaches or migraines and such. So perhaps this is depending on where you live

[@pamlacooper3288]

Great episode and I liked Johnathon’s take at the end

[@Semper_Iratus]

Always seek the help you need.

[@wickedwest89]

His message is HUGELY necessary in the MENOPAUSE community!!!!The number of women in perimenopause, which goes unmentioned from medical professionals even gynecologists, who seek help and are right away handed an antidepressant (eg Paxil) to deal with their hormone issues because they’re told they’re too young for menopause so it must be in their head, is staggering!!!!! Supplementation interest is growing…vit D, omega 3, collagen, magnesium, etc. Voices like Dr Amen and Dr Marie Claire Haver need to be heard. Also, for all us curly hair ladies, the “curly girl method”, whether followed strictly or loosely, has long touted use of products without phthalates, parabens, etc. Poor sound quality sadly - as this was a super special episode!

[@trishabnot7125]

I looked into it for myself & my son but unfortunately it was too expensive and they don’t accept insurance. I think the majority of people who really could benefit from their services won’t be able to afford it, unfortunately.

[@michelebell08]

Dr Ammen audio has an echo. makes it difficult hear. 😢

[@paulg549]

Remembering back to past doctor visits they were always only treating the symptom. Never the cause. Are you sleeping ok, are you eating healthy, are you exercising. Never asked those questions. And you are in and out of the exam room in 10 minutes. I've had to interrupt the doctors constant talking while he's ending the appointment guiding me out of the room while writing out a prescription. I have questions man! Those visits turned out to be very frustrating. Thanks for this channel Mayim. Another good episode. Had to turn closed caption on to get what Dr Amen was saying tho. He was sitting in an acoustically bad spot.

[@ashleyplunkett6512]

I have been a fan of Dr. Amen's for at least 15 years, and have inquired at his clinic a few time about pricing. It is very expensive and not covered by insurance, which makes it hard for the average person to get evaluated.

[@jmsl_910]

yes!! my dr says she prescribed for symptoms not diagnosis. i love that stance bc it doesn't put me in a DMS-box

[@barbarainc]

Another great guest Miyam!

[@staciejean]

I totally agree with Mayim, it IS daunting. I would need a very shirt kist and alot of encouragement just to begin to make thise monumental changes to my life .

[@jessicasutton4069]

Really appreciate hearing Dr Amen talk about such a wide range of topics related to brain health & things we can do to increase body health that impacts brain & overall health.

[@omriom]

תודה❤ אני במילואים ואוהב להקשיב לפודקאסט. סוג של בריחה. תודה מים

[@fishonshay]

Thank you💜🎣❣️ ❣️❣️❣️❣️

[@JanelleAnderson-kb4jq]

Music overshadows audio adding to echo, sad because I just love hearing him, can it be filtered?

[@yocomment4707]

Can someone tell me which make she uses? I stop using makeup bcus of the chemicals but i havent found a “real clean” makeup to replace with.

[@katezajac6730]

The hissing audio is really bad too bad because I really wanted to listen to this

[@m_brokenleg]

Dr. Amen (22:02) is so right. Brain Health Revolution. That’s it! It was so easy to misdiagnose without physical tests! Today’s episode makes me remember when I went to a GP MD in the 90’s bc I was feeling exhausted to the point it’s hard to work, have a normal day, I was gaining weight with no reason, loosing hair..I went out with a diagnose of “belated” postpartum depression (my son was five at the time..!!) & a Prozac prescription. I never got it. Instead I went to an Endocrynologist who after hearing me prescribed a simple blood test with T3, T4, TSH, etc..values. Voilà: it was a severe hypothyroidism due to a Hashimoto Syndrom related with a failure in microbioma..Perfectly regulated since then. Thanks for telling it loud, Dr Amen & Mayim!

[@tinycomedian]

This is very interesting. I wonder if having multiple surgeries and being put under anesthesia could contribute to my depression. I have other disabilities as well like cerebral palsy.

[@creatingahomesteadincolora2919]

Great question! I've had 12 surgeries and grew up in a violent bubble.

[@vanessawhitney5796]

So is there a difference between regular depression and PPD? I’m 4 months PP and have my appointment for PPD tomorrow.

[@rosem6877]

Love you Mayim when you warn Jonathan of being boring and taking away all the fun things….

[@lilliechris4646]

Found him on tik tok, love it

[@Addicted2Learning]

Eeyore - a great name for the brain!

[@tracyscott6187]

I loved this interview, Thank you both. I was one of those healthy women, ate tight, exercise, and my thyroid stopped working and got thy cancer Have ADHD diagnosis, PTSD,😀had traumatic brain injury. I need to go to Amen clinic! Haha not haha

[@user-un2mj6kh2r]

I’d love to hear Dr. Amen and Maya discuss what their viewpoint, opinion, knowledge on fibromyalgia. It is diagnosed after many conditions are eliminated through various medical tests.

[@AndreaPalmer-hi8xq]

I agree.

[@sherrybutts5947]

If memory maintains form as feeling is feeling a type of a mold!! So we mold feelings as memories!!!

[@candycrusher45]

Difficult to hear Dr. Amen in this podcast. I'm surprised he doesn't have better technology given he does these podcasts all the time. Anyway, I love what I've seen him say in other podcasts. Peace.

[@danaw23]

Hi, severe chronic depression and GAD here. Plus I guess multiple TMI’s at 15 and a car accident where my shoulder belt didn’t lock so my head hit the steering wheel. I never thought about the correlation. 🤯 It is making me cringe to hear specific details of Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber’s therapy. I really hope there’s a release.

[@teresamenicucci1658]

Please address anphantasia. I have it. What else can be an effect of it????

[@59Zeta]

The question is undecipherable??!!!?? agree with @JaniceAJanice that it's to hard to understand. PLEASE attach a text copy of what is said

[@LindsAyWithAttitude]

I doubt i will get a response, but im genuinely curious about my depression. I have had depression since 3rd grade. I will be 43 in a few months. What can i possibly think is wrong with me in 3rd grade? I did have stomach issues back then and i still do, but supposedly my colonoscopy a couole years ago came back not so bad... so where do i go from there? Evaluate the food and drinks ive been having? Is there anything else?

[@coppersense999]

48:12 Objection. Joe Rogan did. Not that he is a doctor, but that is where I heard about vitamin D.

[@ChelseaSierraK.]

Mayim, Interview Dr. Steven Greer.

[@audrayates4433]

I couldn't understand most of this interview and it was one I really wanted to hear 😔 is there a written version of this one I can read????

[@AndreaPalmer-hi8xq]

Closed captions

[@YeseniaHuizar-ob1dt]

Loved the topic and Mayim was great as always. Unfortunately I had a hard time hearing the dr. Whatever his sound set up was, didn’t work.

[@peteginnievota3061]

I agree that main stream is making us sick. I’m an R.N. By profession but I got sick and after many years I was presented with Reiki and now I’m a Reiki Master. Was presented with Jin Shin Jyutsu and now I’m a practitioner and certified in Scalp Massage. I believe these practices are more helpful than western training.

[@AndreaPalmer-hi8xq]

Oh boy would I love you to work your magic on me!!

[@nancywatkins988]

It was very difficult to understand some of Amen's statements - even when I listened several times to specific phrases, which seemed to be significant pieces of information, I couldn't make out what he was saying. It was very frustrating!

[@annescholten9313]

Audio is slightly off, specially with words with sss sounds. Interesting content though.

[@wilrockq1065]

Interesting. Just wish I could hear him. This reminds that the host needs to check the audio on different devices beforehand. Unfortunately this episode is unlistenable.

[@hushingsilence]

Hardly 8 minutes in, and we have a Psychiatrist rolling his eyes at SSRIs. Well, as the 17 /17 Indigo Child that I am, I thank goodness every day for SSRIs and related drugs and will continue to say so, even if everyone on the 'net says they are bad. My childhood must have been as horrible as it gets for everyone to lock-step into the Psych meds bad, yoga/chakra good (according to another Breakdown show) cr*p. 🙃 I, for one, will continue to use what helps me irregardless of what else anyone says. (Don't mean to get so defensive sounding, but ffs this anti-drug stuff is everywhere in Psychiatry, but no where else in the treatment of other sicknesses). smh, Mayim. But I still like you lol. 🙂

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

Source scans are expensive. I couldn't afford one.

[@kassi4837]

Exactly. And there are million things that make going into debt in order to afford one dangerous. Dr. Amen is pioneering something great, and I look forward to it being excepted and widely circulated throughout psychiatry, and covered under insurance.

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

@@kassi4837 me too

[@offintonebula]

Mayim, just being honest, I generally love to listen to your podcast, but if the audio is terrible for the guest (like this one), I'm gonna pass.

[@FarBear-by6rw]

Seriously it's such a great topic and it's so disappointing that you can't hear him

[@Momogano]

Im probably late to the game on his relationship with these celebrities, I assume they know and have given him permission to talk about their clinical health right?

[@terrybochansky6271]

Loved it. My first traumatic episode was at around 6 years old. I was running to a friends place, I fell on a pile of nails and had a big spike nail stuck in my forehead. Our neighbor tried pulling it out and could not, he even tried plyer's. It took a doctor getting an xray and then he was finally able to pull it out. I am now 64. I have had so many traumatic events I can't count them on both hands twice. Over 10 years of Mental Health Recovery is finally changing my Life. Thank you for all you do🥰🥰🥰❤❤❤❤❤

[@sherrybutts5947]

Does memory qualify as a path to traumatic brain injury

[@yocomment4707]

11:00 bless because he is the doctor of a celebrity ?

[@keagant6613]

Does he treat children with profound autism? Or recommend someone in Michigan who can do what he does?

[@thelotuspad]

Believing an Untruth causes depression...

[@planetmarie]

The audio is very poor on his end.

[@lisbethchristensen1981]

❤

[@coppersense999]

51:50 By "creative design" he means to say intelligent design. For example, snowflakes are creative and uniquely designed, lovely products of nature or, science, whatever. Intelligent design designates a willful conscious creative Designer, the Author of the natural laws we are able to observe, record, test, reliably replicate, etc.

[@coppersense999]

Again, correction: love is a moral obligation, not happiness. Joy is a result, or a symptom of having loved well. And frankly so are stress and bravery, when love requires boundaries or truth-telling.

[@dianaheilman5163]

His audio is terrible. In many parts, he lowers his voice and the room he's in is echoey. You may want to ensure your guests have adequate audio capabilities and environments (since I have a brother who had an injury that made him hearing impaired we know that KZbin captions are not always accurate) and for those who are only listening and not watching they may struggle to understand what he's saying due to poor audio quality.

[@rombrana6311]

The sound was terrible, i wasn’t able to focus, sorry.

[@mindiwilhelm4322]

😊😊

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

Should he be naming his clients??

[@victoriabyers5161]

I came here to say this... I was like isn't that.... not allowed?? Especially specific details he gave like "when Justin came to me crying on the floor"... Dr.-patient confidentiality? And if he had their permission to bring it up he should have mentioned that

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

@@victoriabyers5161 I agree. I think he should have said he had a patient who etc. Do we really need to know everything about famous people?

[@AllThingsMoneyandTech]

Also pharmaceutical companies fuel the funding for research so they would rather doctors prescribe medicine and treat the symptom rather than find the cause.

[@m.argot.standaert]

This is true, but there are also many studies that try to find the causes of mental health disorders. It is just not something they can generalize yet, or ever. But those studies surely exist and are still ongoing.

[@paigegainey7099]

Without the brain our body is dead and vice versa. Why has this taken so long.

[@Beth-K88]

Poor audio. Could not listen but wanted to

[@sashm]

Such a great conversation, but audio was so difficult to understand on Dr. Amen's side :(, almost unintelligible sometimes.

[@Kristinapedia]

I love Dr. Amen. He says he wants to end mental illness but he doesn't accept medicaid or medicare. Instead, his clinic offers a credit card with 24-31% interest (Care Credit) - that those with medicaid and medicare either cannot get nor can they afford the payments. So, he's really not going to end mental illness is he?

[@AndreaPalmer-hi8xq]

Medicare and Medicaid make it difficult for doctors. they dictate what the doctor can prescribe and what tests can be done. It’s a backassward system.

[@johnbirk8046]

with all respect Dr. Daniel. Have you Tried to liste to your video ? Really terrible audio. I could only bear the echo and noise for 5 minutes. Then cut the video.

[@dianaheilman5163]

Is it ethical for him to be talking about Justin Bieber's diagnosis and how he behaved in his office? He could have said the same thing without mentioning a name. I thought there was a standard of confidentiality between doctor and patient. Shouldn't that be upheld on such a public platform?

[@m.argot.standaert]

Normally any paramedic, doctor, therapeut, ... have particular codes of ethics that contain info about what we should keep confidential. So him talking about this behavior crosses that code. But it could be that Justin Bieber talked about this himself, what can change the rules of being held accountable for sharing this info as it was already out in the public. Normally we aren't even allowed to say who our patients are, so yeah