It’s Not All in Your Head The Root Causes Behind Depression, Anxiety, and Exhaustion in Women Something is wrong, and nobody seems to be able to tell you what it is. The antidepressant helped for a while and then stopped working. The doctor increased the dose, but the brain fog got worse. Someone suggested it might be hormonal, someone else said it was just stress, and eventually the conversation ended with another prescription. Meanwhile, the woman sitting in that office, a woman who used to think clearly, sleep through the night, and handle her life without dreading every morning, has started to wonder if this is just who she is now. Dr. Dawn LaGrone has spent thirty-five years in private practice listening to that exact story. In most cases, the problem was never a “deficiency of medication.” It was a thyroid condition no one tested for, a gut infection sending distress signals straight to the brain, a hormonal change that rewired her mood and cognitive state, or a toxic exposure that’s inflamed the nervous system for years on end. It’s Not All in Your Head is the book Dr. Dawn wrote to explain what is, in many cases, really going on and what to do about it. In this book, you will read about: • Root-Cause Psychiatry and why it can work when years of conventional treatment have not • The hormonal, digestive, metabolic, and environmental conditions that can produce symptoms identical to major mental illness • How the gut-brain axis, the vagus nerve, and the blood-brain barrier connect what is happening in the body to what is happening in the mind • What actually changes in a woman’s brain during PMS, PMDD, perimenopause, and menopause, and which interventions can help at each stage • The four lifestyle foundations that determine whether the brain can produce its own neurotransmitters or remain dependent on medication • A clear framework for moving from a state of crisis to stability and self-leadership by using functional lab testing, targeted supplementation, and skill-based therapy This is not another book about managing your symptoms. It is a book about finding what causes them, correcting it, and getting your life back! Dawn LaGrone, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist who treats adult women exclusively. She grew up in San Antonio, Texas, earned her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, completed her residency in psychiatry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and later earned an MBA from Texas Tech. She has pursued advanced training through the Institute for Functional Medicine, the Kalish Institute, and specialized fellowships in the ketogenic approach to mental health and the reversal of cognitive decline. Over the course of her career, she has served as a psychiatric consultant for IVF programs and led support groups for breast cancer survivors. She has practiced in New York, Georgia, and Texas, and today sees patients in Plano, where she runs her office without staff, returns every phone call herself, and does not accept patients for medication management alone. Her practice is built on a single idea: that the women who walk through her door deserve a partner in their care, not just a prescriber.