While depression can certainly be caused by chemical imbalance and not because of how your unconscious mind impacts/limits your experience of life, I took the approach that exploring my subconscious through therapy was the way to get out. For me it worked very well and I think the journey is an amazing one to go on. Building from the ground up and understanding all the foundations within. I always wonder about treatm…
Great Post, thank you for sharing. I do take issue with the commonly parroted claim that depression can be a chemical imbalance. It's a notion arising from pharma marketing psyops, and is largely without utility. It even risks being an antipattern. The few pros include separating responsibility and thus alleviating some guilt, which often coexists with depression, and annoying spiritualists. Tell me if I missed any.…
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#281I agree with your claim, but in my experience I encounter people who explain mood disorders as chemical imbalances mostly in a different context. Where I see it most often are good-intentioned people trying to argue against stigma and poor treatment of mental illness. The idea is that there is indeed a physical aspect to it and not just "all in your head", and hence should be treated with the same sympathy toward the patients as physical illnesses, and this is directed toward people holding a certain mindset that stigmatizes mental illness as an argument to not do so. Of course, this is a terribly insufficient characterization of mood disorders. Perhaps this characterization in a game of telephone eventually became misconstrued in the popular consciousness as essential to the disorders.