John Miles

For a listener who might not be familiar with what we're talking about, what is the DSM and what does it get right?

And what do you see it's getting wrong about how it's shaping how we see ourselves, those who are being diagnosed by it?

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Now back to my conversation with Dr. Paul Conte.

And Paul, I'm going to build upon this because when I was going through that period of time, one of...

The major things I was trying to deal with, and you talked about physical health and mental health was I had experienced a number of traumatic brain injuries throughout my life, starting when I was at five and then they just progressed.

And some of them are sports related.

Some of them are combat related.

I was actually in a coma for a couple of weeks as a result of one of them.

The symptoms of a lot of mental health disorders and the symptoms of long-term effects of TBIs overlap in many ways.

And so I decided I really had to start understanding my makeup, like what was going on, because what I found

given your analogy of the roots, is that the system was only looking at the leaves and the branches and they weren't looking at the trunk and they weren't looking at the roots.

So I started to go through this

turned out to be a two-year period of me search where I started to unpack what is going on with my gut health?