08/04/2026
There’s a trend in traditional medicine to quickly diagnose people with mental health conditions and medicate with psychiatric drugs like antidepressants without doing any additional testing. This can be extremely common with conditions like traumatic brain injury, masking symptoms and offering no real solution or pathway to healing.
In this interview clip with Dr. Mark L. Gordon (), he discusses why he disagrees with this approach, citing a lack of cause and effect when treating traumatic brain injury patients. Instead of simply medicating away psychiatric symptoms, he dives deeper to understand the physiological explanation behind these symptoms and treats accordingly to restore as much functioning as possible, offering his patients answers instead of band-aids.
As a traumatic brain injury survivor whose head injuries were misdiagnosed as several mental health conditions and who was overmedicated with psychiatric drugs for over a decade, this approach would’ve saved me years of my life and a whole lot of suffering. I know for me, addressing only the symptoms offered no relief. In my experience, conventional medical professionals asking why to get to the root cause hasn’t been the norm, as they are largely content to throw medication at a condition rather than provide actual answers and a path to true healing. And it’s not necessarily their fault; the blame lies with the system that trained them.
Cause and effect should be the rule, not the exception.
To contact Dr. Gordon, visit http://www.tbimedlegal.com/
To watch the full interview called Nutraceuticals and Hormone Replacement Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury on my YouTube channel, visit: https://tinyurl.com/DrGordonTBI
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy
