The Atma Approach to Depression

By Dr. Neela Sandal

Mainstream Medicine's Approach Is an SSRI and Six Weeks

Flat, heavy, no morning. Dose up. Switch. Add a different medicine. Therapy if you can find a slot. Standard labs that all "look normal."

Sound like your last doctor's appointment?

What Mainstream Medicine Misses

Low mood is a state the brain can produce on purpose when energy, thyroid, inflammation, grief, or a blocked future says that it is not safe to want things. Serotonin meds help some people. They do not correct a TSH that was "normal," a ferritin of 12, or a body that has been in fight-or-flight for three years.

The Atma Approach looks at you as a unique person. Why is your mood this heavy?

Has your doctor ever talked to you about these commonly missed root causes?

Commonly Missed Root Causes

•Thyroid, iron, B12, and vitamin D gaps that copy depression on a screening form

•Inflammation and a gut-brain loop that make effort feel expensive

•Sleep loss and circadian collapse, so mornings arrive without a rise in drive

•Post-viral, postpartum, or post-pill chemistry treated as a standalone psychiatric event

•Alcohol, cannabis, and the SSRI itself flattening what was left of appetite for life

•Unfinished grief or other spiritual pain

•Metabolic disease and low testosterone or estradiol taking the floor out from under mood

How Atma Clinic Can Help

We've helped hundreds of patients minimize — or entirely eliminate — their need for antidepressants by solving the underlying root problem.

At Atma, our Medical Doctors (MDs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) go through intensive training to become certified in Advanced Functional and Integrative Medicine. They're certified and ready to get to the root of your issue.

Depression

Mainstream Medicine's Approach Is an SSRI and Six Weeks

What Mainstream Medicine Misses

How Atma Clinic Can Help

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