Learning How to MANAGE Your MIND Is So Important! – Daniel Amen Live Motivation
Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Psychiatrist, Founder @amen_clinics, leader in brain health & neuroimaging, 12x NY Times bestselling author, The End of Mental Illness out now! ?
www.amenclinics.com
Follow him at https://www.instagram.com/doc_amen/
First 5 Minutes Automated Transcript:
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um just a little bit of your expertise
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and share it with our community
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i’m forever grateful for that
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well thank you so much for having me and
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allowing me to share
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some of our work that’s brilliant and
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just for
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for people who might not know about the
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aemon clinics um
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about yourself um can you just give a
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brief introduction
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and how long you’ve been practicing how
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long you’ve been treating
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mental health conditions and just a
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little brief explanation about the aim
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and clinics
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and everything that you do there so we
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have
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eight soon to be nine clinics across the
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united states
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we’ve been at this a long time been a
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psychiatrist nearly 40 years
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amen clinics has been around for 30
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years
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and we think you should actually look at
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the brain
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before you go about changing it
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and so we do a study called brain spect
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imaging we looks at blood flow and
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activity
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looks at how your brain works
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and we’ve done 160 000
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scans on people from 150 countries
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so we have a lot of experience we see
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little kids
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and old people and everybody in between
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we treat um all the letters from
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add anxiety autism
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uh bipolar disorder
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uh schizophrenia ptsd
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and do a lot of work with memory
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and brain optimization and
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you know i actually really hate the term
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mental illness
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i think it’s wrong it’s shaming
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it’s stigmatizing when you call someone
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mental
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that’s not a good thing and
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um our brain imaging work teaches us
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that most psychiatric problems
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are brain health issues that steal
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people’s minds and what we discovered is
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once you get your brain right
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your mind tends to follow
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and so i have a new book called the end
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of mental
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illness where i’m really trying to get
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us to stop
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using the term mental illness call
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these things what they really are right
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health issues
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and in that way everybody will want help
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no one wants to see a psychiatrist
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because no one wants to be labeled as
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defective
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or abnormal but every one of the people
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watching
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wants a better brain so what if
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mental health was brain health and then
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what we do is just be much more
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effective
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at helping people who suffer so you’re
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saying
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um take away the term mental um out of
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the equation
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and change it to brain health i really
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like the idea of that and i think what
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you say
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there is a stigma to mental mental
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illness and
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um a lot of people would say that
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anxiety disorders
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potentially don’t even fall into a
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category of mental illness
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almost because it’s a condition that can
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be changed
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yes but it clearly causes people to
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suffer
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yeah and it’s a condition that
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if you don’t treat it can lead people
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to drug and alcohol abuse it can lead
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to loneliness and social isolation
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and suicide and and it’s highly
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treatable
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but you know schizophrenia is treatable
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bipolar disorder is treatable
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depression is treatable i just think how
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we name things in psychiatry is
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a mess and mostly because
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we never look at the underlying biology
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and what other medical doctor acts like
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that right that they don’t
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look at the organ they treat
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and clearly the brain is
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responsible for most psychiatric
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conditions and at aemon clinics we just
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think you should look at it
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and then we should treat it and
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our first thought is not medication
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i mean we use medicine when we think
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it’s appropriate
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