[Read by Cassandra Campbell] A groundbreaking, science-based, and holistic approach to treating depression -- not as a disease, but as a systemic imbalance -- that will rescue millions of women currently taking pharmaceuticals or considering it. Last year alone thirty million Americans were prescribed $12 billion of antidepressants -- SSRI's are steadily becoming a traditional medicine panacea for depression, anxiety, panic attacks. Patients -- overwhelmingly female -- are looking for solutions, but according to Dr. Kelly Brogan, the help these women want can't be found at the pharmacy. Antidepressants are not only the wrong way to treat depression, but their long-term use can permanently dismantle the body's self-healing mechanisms. We need a new paradigm: The best way to heal the brain is to heal the body. Based on her expert interpretation of published medical findings combined with years of evidence from helping her own patients, Dr. Brogan illuminates the real cause of depression: it is not a simple neurochemical disorder but rather a complex inflammatory disease -- a manifestation of irregularities in the body that start far away from neural synapses and serotonin. In A Mind of Your Own , she demolishes the myths traditional medicine has built around the causes and treatment of depression, and offers a proscriptive, step-by-step thirty-day action plan -- including dietary modifications, over-the-counter supplements, detoxification, sleep, and stress reduction techniques -- women can use to heal their bodies, eradicate inflammation, and feel like themselves again. Bold, brave, and revolutionary, A Mind of Your Own challenges readers to question their assumptions and regain control of their own well-being -- and on their own terms. A Mind of Your Own is must reading for everyone who has bought into the idea that drugs are the best answer to anxiety and depression. With the research to prove it Dr. Kelly Brogan lays out a path to help you reclaim your mind and your brain health. (Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and Goddesses Never Age ) A Mind of Your Own leverages the most forward-minded clinical research combined with a healthy dose of compassionate holism to bring forth a revolution in treating mood disorders. Dr. Brogan's program is a soundly welcomed bright light in a world otherwise focused solely on pharmaceuticals. (David Perlmutter, MD, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain and Brain Maker ) Bold, brilliant, and brimming with practical ideas and tools to end depression and anxiety without drugs, A Mind of Your Own is a tour de force that will change how you approach your health and mental wellbeing. --(Sara Gottfried MD, author of The Hormone Reset Diet and The Hormone Cure ) Here's a new prescription for thinking about depression and how to treat it: Heal the Body, and the Mind Will Follow. Brogan provides a clear review of the science behind that prescription, and how to fill it, challenging readers to open their minds to new possibilities in mental health. --(Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic ) A Mind of Your Own is a perfect affirmation for how a person can take charge of her own mental health using Dr. Brogan's program. Anyone reading this book will come away with a scientifically-based, safe, and effective approach to mental health without the use of drugs. --(Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D, FACN, author of The Disease Delusion ) Dr. Kelly Brogan is a holistic psychiatrist specializing the in the treatment of women throughout the life cycle, including pregnancy and postpartum. She is a graduate of MIT and Cornell University Medical School and has authored or co-authored more than twenty pier-reviewed publications. Kristin Loberg is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling collaborator whose work includes The End of Illness, Grain Brain , and A Short Guide to a Long Life . She earned her degree from Cornell University, where she spent most of her time in biomedical labs as a pre-med student -- only to leave the prospect of medical school to pursue a writing career. She much prefers the weather in Los Angeles where she was born and resides. She is a member of the Author's Guild, PEN, and the Los Angeles Editors and Writers Group, and she is an avid triathlete and oenophile.