Why Has the Misleading “Chemical Imbalance” Theory of Mental Illness Persisted for So Long?

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Why Has the Misleading “Chemical Imbalance” Theory of Mental Illness Persisted for So Long?
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The persistence of the chemical myth of depression makes it harder for patients to know what works for them and why.

. I am inclined to think the debate over the efficacy has distracted from the main point of the study—in the case of mental health, how and whether something worksIn many ways my friend and I are very similar: prone to severe depression, from the same ethnic background, of similar ages, both philosophers. We have both spent the vast majority of our adult lives in precarious environments that incentivized a certain kind of relentless pursuit of achievements.

One of the main reasons my friend was so upset about the serotonin study was because she was now left with a great many questions. If she wasn’t depressed because of serotonin levels, how was she to understand her propensity to depression? Was something else wrong with brain? Her genetics? Most heartbreakingly, she wondered whether it was that she was simply weak.

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