124. What If It’s Not Depression? | Achina Stein, DO

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“For mild depression, or acute short-term depression, there are so many things that you can or should do as opposed to going on antidepressants” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-Achina Stein, DO</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Achina Stein is author of What If It's NOT Depression? Your Guide to Finding Answers and Solutions. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She is a board-certified psychiatrist and has been in practice for 25 plus years. Propelled by her son’s health crisis in 2010, she found functional medicine which resolved all his mental health problems as well as her own. She has a busy private practice called Functional Mind LLC in Riverside, RI where she sees patients for functional medicine primarily but also sees patients for psychotherapy.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She is a certified practitioner of the Institute for Functional Medicine, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and was awarded the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award by NAMI-RI in 2008. She is a former Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She has a companion program to her book called What If It’s Not Depression? Bootcamp provides an alternative to medication for people with chronic mild depression-like symptoms that do not respond to antidepressant medications and will be offering an SSRI tapering course soon. In this interview, Dr. Stein discusses depression and what can be done from a functional medicine perspective. She gives us great information to help ourselves and others.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://achinasteindo.com/group-coaching-bootcamp/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Dr. Achina’s What If It’s Not Depression Bootcamp</span></a> <span style="font