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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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The End of Mental Illness

Written by: Daniel G. Amen
Narrated by: Richard Harries
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New hope for those suffering from conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, PTSD, ADHD, and more.

Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn’t much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely improved, either. Meanwhile, the stigma of the “mental illness” label - damaging and devastating on its own - can often prevent sufferers from getting the help they need.

Brain specialist and best-selling author Dr. Daniel Amen is on the forefront of a new movement within medicine and related disciplines that aims to change all that. In The End of Mental Illness, Dr. Amen draws on the latest findings of neuroscience to challenge an outdated psychiatric paradigm and help listeners take control and improve the health of their own brain, minimizing or reversing conditions that may be preventing them from living a full and emotionally healthy life.

The End of Mental Illness will help you discover:

  • Why labeling someone as having a “mental illness” is not only inaccurate but harmful
  • Why standard treatment may not have helped you or a loved one - and why diagnosing and treating you based on your symptoms alone so often misses the true cause of those symptoms and results in poor outcomes
  • At least 100 simple things you can do yourself to heal your brain and prevent or reverse the problems that are making you feel sad, mad, or bad
  • How to identify your “brain type” and what you can do to optimize your particular type
  • Where to find the kind of health provider who understands and uses the new paradigm of brain health
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When I started this, I had huge hopes that the answers to our adult son’s serious mental illness would be illuminated. By the end, I am pretty sure Dr. Amen is overselling and underdelivering. To be clear, much of the basic living advice in the book seems solidly based in science in terms of good brain health (whole foods, food regular sleep, minimal tv/social media, omegas, exercise, etc) and the much much harder ones- don’t grow up in a deprived environment, don’t have bad genes, don’t have sick parents, etc. Since most mental illnesses have overlapping symptoms, there is a laundry list of vitamins you ‘should’ be taking. The simple suggestion that mental illness as a brain illness is promising, but I am unsure that Dr.Amen’s approach will help many people really struggling. The brain imaging he does seems unlikely to help most people who search for answers- or those who love them.

I was really hopeful

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Don’t get me wrong, I like books about neuroscience and brain health, but with this one, instead of rewinding to properly grasp every details, I got myself fast forwarding because it was repeating himself or doing whats seems to me like he was listing a grocery store list per moment. Seems like he stretched his knowledge with vapid sentences and common sense concept…

A bit boring and empty

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