My Battle with Depression ft. Dr. Amen

Really? So much.

Why do you think there's so much resistance to just learning new things in a particular field?

Well, there's a book called The Structure of Scientific Revolution on how things change.

And it's exactly what happened to me.

And you always have to follow the money because if I'm right, and I am, if you look, it's so much easier, so much better.

Like when we looked at your brain, I'm like, eh, we need to do these things, right? But I also talked to you, right? I didn't make a diagnosis from a scan.

I made a diagnosis with all the information and I'm like, your brain can be better and you can feel better.

So if I'm right, it means 40,000 psychiatrists and hundreds of thousands of physicians who are prescribing medications willy-nilly are wrong.

And Generally, when you tell someone they're wrong, they don't say thank you.

Yeah, that's true.

Do you think we're over medicating in America?

I think we're miss-medicating.

I think some people feel ashamed about medicine and so they don't take it.

And I think- Oh yeah,

we were just discussing that when we were talking about my brain scan, how my doctor keeps asking me every year, oh, do you want to go off your Wellbutrin now or tone that down? And you actually think I should take more, which I'm kind of excited to do.

Yeah, it's the shame around it.

You were depressed since you were in middle school.

Yeah, there is a lot of shame and stigma around it still.

And there's

darkness that you are very familiar with that you don't

want.

And we talked about happiness is a moral obligation.

I was like, that's a foreign concept to most people.

Yeah, explain that to my audience because

I love it.