Breakthrough Depression Solution: Mastering Your Mood with Nutrition, Diet & Supplementation - Softcover

Greenblatt, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934716618 ISBN 13: 9781934716618

Publisher: Sunrise River Press, 2016

Synopsis

The ideas as to what causes depression are not based on strong science, and our treatments are not working nearly as well as they should. Psychiatry is in crisis. The usual treatment mode (typically based solely on a subjective psychiatric examination and construction of a symptom list) often leads to psychiatrists blindly searching for a medication that might work. Other factors such as nutrition, toxins, hormones, allergies, biochemical risks, and medical disorders are typically ignored.

No amount of changing this approach will work because the basic underlying concepts are wrong. We need an entirely new way of looking at patients. We must stop treating them according to lists of subjective symptoms, and we must stop acting as if one person were the same as the next. Instead, we must start seeing patients as individuals and then diagnose and treat their disorders accordingly.

James Greenblatt, MD, a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, has been successfully treating patients with nutritional and metabolic therapies for more than twenty-five years. In this book, he provides a personalized model of integrative medicine for mental health that can result in relief from depression and a renewed sense of emotional health. This groundbreaking book offers hope and treatment models that are proven, simple, safe, and effective.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Emerging evidence suggests that depression is a brain-based disorder that results from biochemical imbalances and nutritional deficiencies. In the second edition of Breakthrough Depression Solution, Dr. Greenblatt emphasizes the treatment of depression using an individualized methodology known as THE ZEEBRA approach. Just as all zebras have a unique, distinct stripe pattern, depression is also unique to each person.

This book offers new hope to those who suffer from depression. Mental health expert Dr. Greenblatt incorporates decades of research and treatment in this groundbreaking work. He explains:

The biological mechanisms that drive depression

Why previous treatments may have failed

Economical approaches to help regulate depression symptoms

Ways to minimize the side effects of antidepressants

Strategies to minimize withdrawal symptoms for tapering off medications under a physician’s supervision

A nutritional supplement program to optimize moods

About the Author

Pioneers such as Dr. Greenblatt have contributed to the revolution of consumers seeking "personalized medicine". The culture has since shifted and the fields of medicine and psychiatry are rapidly changing, as more physicians are acknowledging the accumulating research looking at nutritional interventions for psychiatric illness. The understanding of genetics, metabolism, and nutrition is now incorporated into mainstream medicine. Integrative medicine has eclipsed terms such as "alternative" medicine. For the last three decades, Dr. Greenblatt has devoted his career to educating his colleagues, clinicians, and patients how integrative medicine can have profound effects on mental wellness and how to employ balanced, integrative strategies in the treatment mental illness. Dr. Greenblatt has published multiple books sharing his clinical experience treating complex mood and eating disorders utilizing an integrative approach.
Dr. Greenblatt currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA and serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sunrise River Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1934716618
• ISBN 13: 9781934716618
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304