I attended an all-day workshop today on mental health, and this evening I found this article on mental health and nutrition (an aspect which was NOT covered in the seminar) in my email inbox. I totally agree with the idea proposed here, that when problems of the brain are treated with a whole-body approach, issues in other parts of the body often resolve.
Robert Hedaya tried everything in mainstream psychiatry’s toolbox to treat a patient with panic disorder, including cognitive behavioral therapy and a series of prescribed medications. She was still having attacks after a year, though, so Hedaya went back to the lab to look at her case from a different perspective.
“Early in my training in psychiatry at Georgetown, I figured out that the way things look depends on the lens you use,” says Hedaya, MD, ABPN, DFAPA, founder of the National Center for Whole Psychiatry and clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. “If you use a low-powered lens to look at mental illness, you look at communities and culture. If you use a medium-powered lens, you look at family systems. If you use a high-powered lens, you look at molecules.”
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/how-to-eat-to-manage-your-mental-health.html#ixzz2voWa2sVk
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