Summary of Kelly Brogan with Kristin Loberg's A Mind of Your Own, by holistic women’s health psychiatrist Kelly Brogan, aims to help women better understand the root causes of depression and the pervasive myths surrounding antidepressants. Brogan encourages readers to take their health and well being into their own hands. She outlines a four-week protocol of dietary restrictions, adjustments to sleep and exercise, and meditation. This regimen is intended to provide women with a healthier alternative to antidepressants. By taking an empowered, proactive approach to health, women can overcome debilitating symptoms, become healthier, and ultimately thrive without antidepressants.
Over the course of years as a traditional psychiatrist, Brogan prescribed antidepressants to women because she believed that a chemical imbalance in the brain accounted for mental health disorders. A health crisis of her own forced Brogan to reconsider the conventional wisdom surrounding pharmaceutical treatments for common ailments. After being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease, shortly after giving birth to her first child…
