384. The Myth of Aging with Dr. Gilberg

384. The Myth of Aging with Dr. Gilberg

From You Are Not Broken by Kelly Casperson, MD

August 16, 2026 · 45 min · Episode 384

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Dr. Arnold Gilberg discusses the myth of aging and the importance of connection over medication in mental health.

Age is just a number. We say it all the time. Do we actually believe it? This week I sit down with Dr. Arnold Gilberg, MD, PhD — a psychiatrist with over 60 years of clinical experience and author of The Myth of Aging . Sixty years. Let that sink in for a second. He has watched mental health care go from something people hid to something people post about. And he has spent just as long studying what actually keeps people vital as they get older, and it is not what most of us assume. We get into what a psychiatrist actually is (and how that's different from a psychologist or a therapist) , why the shame around therapy has mostly disappeared since the 1960s but hasn't fully left medicine itself, and why he'd argue we're over-medicating a problem that often needs connection more than a prescription. Then we go somewhere I did not expect, his own path to becoming a rabbi, and what spirituality has taught him about the mind that medicine alone couldn't. If you've ever felt "stuck," or assumed decline was just the deal you signed up for by getting older — this one's for you. Dr. Arnold Gilberg, MD, PhD , is a psychiatrist with more than six decades of clinical experience and the author…

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Host: Kelly Casperson, MD

Guest: Dr. Arnold Gilberg, MD, PhD

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