I found out this morning that my new book Magnificent MInd At Any Age hit the New York Times bestseller list after its first week of release. If you bought a copy, thank you! If not, I hope you do.
The last two weeks I have been traveling around the country on a 15 city tour for my new PBS special and for the book. I try my best to eat well and get enough sleep. Of course, I take my supplements (NeuroVite, NeurOmega and Brain Vitale) and try to exercise most days.
The trip has been unbelievably gratifying and a bit emotionally overwhelming. Everywhere I go people tell me that my work has changed their lives. Yesterday I was in the Atlanta airport and someone came up to me and told me he had seen my PBS Special three times and it helped him so much. He was off to the PGA Golf school to try to make the PGA tour and he now understood that he needed a better brain to be his best. The day before in Raleigh in a Border’s Bookstore a clerk told me she read Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and it helped her so much. On a plane, a stewardess told me she had seen the special in three different cities and it meant so much to her because her mother has Alzheimer’s disease and she wants to prevent it in herself.
The principles in the new book, as well as the other ones, can change your life. We must start taking brain health seriously!
With gratitude,
Daniel
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Dr. Amen, I am very distraught over the death of Jett Travolta especially because he is rumored to have autism (like my son) and his association with scientology and their stance on medications for psychiatric reasons. Do you have anything to contribute that can help parents like us reconcile the medication vs. no medication debate?
Dr. Amen,
I love your books and your work. I was wondering with all your brain scan work, can you identify homosexuals from a brain scan? And have you scanned people’s brains before they act on their homosexuality and then after?
Have you dealt with people with Chronic Fatigue/Immune Dysfunction and their damaged brains? If so, what have you found? Have you see the pencil-point holes in the brain and the lack of oxygen that helps to cause the damage to CFIDS brains? Ideas of undoing this severe short and medium -term memory damage? I have this issue and believe it is not “fixable”. Thank you -
What is your opinion on the Bipolar magazine comment that 80% of people with bi-polar become alcohol addicted at some point in their lives. I was diagnosed as bi-polar in 1980 after 17 years of not knowing what was wrong. Alcoholic at 55, to a treatment centre within two weeks of identifying the problem, unsuccessful suicide attempt 8 months later and now amazingly happy. Highest contributing factor was the treatment centre for alcoholism, although not convinced I was “clinically alcoholic”, my opinion is “causitively alcoholic”, similar expressions used with depression. I very much understand clinical depression and am hugely greatful for the psychological work and meds that have allowed me such a productive life, in spite of the illness. I “give back” every way I can, particularly being very open about my disease and how it can be tamed. Education is the key, and the meds are important to allow the brain to understand what is going on and how you can change the catalysts in your life to accomodate the illness effects. I love your newsletters as there is always something that I can do better to offset the illness effects. I thank God every day for the life I have now compared to what it was before I knew any of this. I was a high performer, both intellectually and in sports, choosing high stress situations in every thing I did, and I paid the price for that. But thankfully it led to the understanding that I have now. Thank you for helping me increase that knowledge. That is what powers the change we can make in our own lives and the lives of others. The stigma of mental illness is still there, much improved from 1980. Being open and showing people that one can be very productive in life, if you work at it and take your meds is one of the ways I choose to give back. Small dents compared to what you are doing. I salute you, Daniel Amen, and hope to come to one of your clinics someday soon.
CAN YOU HELP ME? IVE TAKEN THE TESTS THAT YOU PROVIDED,BUT I CANT SHAKE THE FACT, THAT ITS HARD TO TALK ABOUT IT, THE WAY I FEEL, HOPELESS, I HAVE PROBLEMSWITH WALKING , WENT TO A HOLISTIC MEDICINE MAN FOR SOME FEEDBACK, HESAID I HAD M.S. BECAUSE OF MY SXS.WHICH, I TOLD HIM HE GAVE ME SOME DRINK WHICH HE HAD, I BOUGHT SOME OF IT HOPEING IT WOULD HELP. I CANNOT WORK ANYMORE, I AM 63 YRS. OLD AND HAVE THIS FEELING OF DOOM. I HAVE TO BE ON THE GO, ALL THE TIME, I DO LIVE WITH SOMEONE, BUT HE HAS HIS OWN PROBLEMS, SO I SAY NOTHING. I HAVE NEVER FELT LIKE THIS BEFORE,I GET COLD BOTH MY HANDS AND FEET.I GO TO A SHRINK, SHE HAS ME ON ANTDEPESSANT PILLS,CELEXA 20MGS.Q. DAY, BUT IT MAKES MEANXIOUS. I GUESS IT MAY HAVE TO DO WITH ALL MY RESPONIBITIES, MORTGAGES, BILLS,KIDS, I RECENTLY HAD MY MOM PASS AWAY, I LIVEDWITH HER, CAN THAT BE PART OF MY PROBLEMS?/ THANKS, MKB
My son has an extremely bright mind and has experienced a mild concussion, @ 24 then experienced panic attacks & anxiety. He was given Prozac and 4 years later the dose was doubled. He drank alcohol after the 2X dose and experienced a mental breakdown. Numerous tests all clear of tumors etc. Diagnosis was alcoholism, mild ADD and maniac depressive. He has not functioned normally since July 2008. He is severely handicapped when he drinks, and major personality change from the drugs. We are desperate because his wife is leaving him and we fear for his life. Is this beyond what your clinic is able to address? Whom could I call on to help him in Denver?
Thank you.