Dr. Kelly Brogan is a holistic psychiatrist, author of the NY Times Bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, Own Your Self, the children’s book, A Time For Rain, and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She is the founder of the online healing program Vital Mind Reset, and the membership community, Vital Life Project. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, and has a B.S. from M.I.T. in Systems Neuroscience. She specializes in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms.

Today, we're chatting about... 

• What inspired Kelly to put down her prescription pad for good
• Why Kelly doesn't consider herself an unethical person for prescribing meds 
• How to know when you're ready to question information that is in the dominant orthodoxy 
• What Kelly thought would happen when people read A Mind of Your Own 
• Whether or not mental illness is due to a chemical imbalance 
• Why people believe medications save their life 
• The risks of taking mental health medications 
• Why science is not what it used to be 
• How to approach a doctor-client relationship to avoid brainwashing 
• Why Kelly believes you can't get informed consent from the person delivering the intervention
• The explanation for schizophrenia and bipolar 
• Why it's harmful to cold turkey your medications
• Whether or not there is a time or place for mental health medications

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