What causes the chemical imbalances that lead to depression?
You posted an answer to my question regarding my thesis and I’d just like to say I definitely agree that depression is being blamed “brain abnormalities”, such as serotonin reputake. However, at this point, we don’t even fully understand the full spectrum of how these chemicals work and what exactly they do. The scary part then is why are all of these medications being prescribed when we don’t even understand what’s wrong? And the even scarier part is they don’t even know what anti-depressants really do to the brain!! The little that pharmaceutical companies do know is being hidden from the FDA and the general public. Check out some of Peter Breggin’s books, he makes a lot of interesting arguments against simply treating psychological disorders with antidepressants. Depression, anxiety, etc. is far more complicated than simply a brain abnormality. It’s a build up of past experiences and stressors and how we think about and interpret them.
