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Old Oct 09, 2010, 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by deliquesce View Post
pretty much every professional i've seen has believed that there is more to my depression than past trauma i.e., there's a genuine chemical imbalance going on, beyond what is explicable in terms of cognition/past learning.
But trauma causes "chemical imbalance" -- along with that bugbear, our inherent constitutional differences, which influence how we react. Anyway, that's what I think.
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