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	Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, ... Daniel G. Amen Three Rivers Press, 1999 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 165 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

well-organized

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life contains much information. It is good to read the whole book, but then you must choose which parts apply to you. Each chapter has symptoms, medications and alternative aids. You decide. It has been very helpful.

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This is a good overview of how certain parts of the brain can affect your actions and moods. Each chapter about a part of the brain is followed by recommendations to improve the brain's function and in turn your life.

Yes, one recommendation is usually medication, but the other 10 or so can easily be incorporated into your life. If you could use a little help, this book and recommendations are certainly worth the low selling price.

Enjoy and good luck.

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Good stuff from the Amen

(This is going to have to be short for now, it's getting late) Excellent book once again by the good doctor. The changing your brain message is certainly a winner. As always, a fairly easy read and thoughtful message. I'll add more later.

-Sarah Shikitao-Brown,
Tao Cycle Therapy: Natural Happiness via Self Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression [Updated 2008 3nd Edition]

The brain is flexible and will physically change if prompted to

Very good book. I'd say it's a message everyone can grab hold of because it gives you something concrete to focus on. I'd compare it to the way biofeedback works. The brain is flexible and will physically change if prompted to. Some suggestions for prompting it are made here for a variety of different stages and types of depression and anxiety. For example, medications, exercise, diet and various therapies. This book is a good way to occupy your time. I would also recommend these,

Tao Cycle Therapy: Natural Happiness via Self Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression [Updated 2008 3nd Edition]
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness

Jane Stevens

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Sounds like it has promise...

This review is not based on the book but on hearing him talk on PBS.
The reason I write it is that it is clear to me from my own readings in this area that Dr. Amen does have some very good info about using natural methods to control anxiety and depression.

Fish oil, St. John's Wort, exercise, and examining the way we think are just some of his ideas that make a lot of sense.

I would like to mention another book that uses natural methods and that has been very helpful to myself and others:
The Mindful Way Through Depression:
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One of the main things about all this is that it takes a multi-level approach. Nutrition, changing one's mental habits, and exercise are just as important as what supplements or medication you may take.

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