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Originally Posted by Esaias
The articles do not suggest that depression or other issues aren't real, just that they are not likely to be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
'Just deciding there is nothing wrong' doesn't solve anything and never did. And neither I, nor any poster here, nor the authors of the articles I linked to, suggest any such thing.
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I have no doubt that what are commonly referred to as "chemical imbalances" (or more likely -bad wiring of the brain) are real and occur in every single person, only the degree to which it happens being the only difference. Deciding how to FIX these imbalances and bad wiring's is where it gets really dicey. In some ways trying to cure mental issues with drugs is still at the stage of "blood letting" from the middle ages. Granted scientists are developing better maps of the mind and know, in general terms, where specific things happen, but it is still like trying to fix a computer program containing millions and millions of lines of code and not being able to look at more than a single screen full of them at a time. You can try to fix some code but will have NO IDEA what it will mess up in other areas of the program.
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