Kelly Brogan, M.D. is a Manhattan-based holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the book, A Mind of Your Own and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, and has a B.S. from MIT in Systems Neuroscience. She is board certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine, and is specialized in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. We dive into topics like Kelly's first wake up call while writing prescriptions, what happened when she was faced with an illness and realizing she didn't want to take medication for the rest of her life, how we only learn through lived experience, some astounding facts about the psychopharmacology industry, the abundance of available data and the many versions of the truth to choose from, the need for reinvention in medicine and science, the courtship that happens in the pharmaceutical companies, the story we are told about depression, the myth that depression needs to be "fixed" as a chemical imbalance, and so much MORE...