Comment by Forgeties79
6 hours ago
> A depressed person would tell that most people around him are wrong and are optimistic only because they don't understand how bad all is.
Or because of a legitimate chemical imbalance or some other cognitive issue they can’t control alone. Right?
> "There is no convincing evidence that depression is caused by serotonin abnormalities"
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/2022...
and
> "the etiology of depression is incredibly complex, the narrative that it is caused by a simple “chemical imbalance” persists in lay settings. We sought to understand where people are exposed to this explanation"
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11752450/
and
> "Onset of depression more complex than a brain chemical imbalance. It's often said that depression results from a chemical imbalance, but that figure of speech doesn't capture how complex the disease is. Research suggests that depression doesn't spring from simply having too much or too little of certain brain chemicals."
- https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/what-causes-dep...
and
> "Analysis: Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain – new study"
- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jul/analysis-depression-prob...
(These are not thoroughly checked articles, they're the first few search results; however claims that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance ought to be able to show where that idea originated, how the imbalance is measured in patients, where that hypothesis is supported by evidence, why antidepressents don't fix depression in half of patients, and several more suspicious things).
I didn’t say it was simply that. You’re twisting my words and these studies to discount all of behavioral health.
Yes you did. No I'm not.
(I've written paragraphs and paragraphs thinking through some of my views in this thread. You wrote three words naming a thing which doesn't seem to exist. If you want more engagement, engage more. What words am I twisting? Where did you say it was anything more detailed than that? What behaviour that people "can't control alone" are you talking about?)