Reddit reviews A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives

I highly recommend Dr. Kelly Brogan’s book “A Mind of Your Own ”. Give a listen to her so you can decide if it’s something you’d be up to doing, her approach is pretty involved. She’s been on a lot of different podcasts.

There's this book that's all about improving ones mood through diet. It's not a fix-all but it could be part of a solution, especially if you're someone who has a crappy diet and doesn't take good care of herself.

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Your-Own-Depression-Reclaim/dp/0062405578/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526956152&sr=8-1&keywords=kelly+brogan

I highly recommend the book “A Mind of Your Own.” It’s about how nutrition effects your mental health. So not about vitamins exactly, but nutrients! Although vitamins are mentioned as well... Making some of the changes in this book has definitely led to improvements in my mental health.

A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062405578/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_gWD2Bb5G18GKK

Note: It’s marketed towards woman, as you can see by the title, but I have no idea why. The science/logic/nutrition advice seems pretty gender neutral to me.

mmm You could just stay on your medication and in a couple of months try to get out of it, to see if treating your thyroid made any difference. Either way, I made a mistake in my previous comment. If you've been on adderrall for a while (or any other type of psychiatric medication) it's extremely hard to get off of them, because they change the chemistry in your brain. So if you manage to get out of them, it'll be a slow process. Have you heard of dr. Kelly Brogan? If you're interested in getting off your medication, she's an invaluable resource. This interview should give you an idea of what she's about and if that route interests you. She has an excellent book called "A Mind of your Own" on the subject.

Edit: I forgot to say: if you've been on psychiatric medication for a while and you try to cold turkey get off of them, you can't really know if you actually need them. The symptoms you're gonna get from trying to get off are very likely to be withdraw. Remember, these medications are so addictive people have to tapper off by 1/1000 sometimes. So don't judge the experience you've had by the symptoms you got by trying to quit it cold turkey. Kelly Brogan talks a lot about this problem. And traditional psychiatrists very often use this phenomena as trying to tell patients that they really needed the medication, when that might not be the case.

Have you read Kelly Brogan’s A Mind of Your Own? She is of the view that depression is a symptom of inflammation and shares how to heal via diet, sleep, etc. I haven’t read it but have been reading up on the Immune-Cytokine Model of Depression.