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Originally Posted by VenusHalley
what is so hard to understand? WORLD SUCKS, WE ARE DEPRESSED AND MESSED UP BUT BLAME IT ON CHEMICALS AND GENES. Here.
so we have science....and does it tell something about correlation versus causation or these brain changes? And can we be really reduced by bundle of genes? I don't think so.
and what about neuroplasticity? Yes, you can indeed change your brain structure.
and as for PTSD... at certain point I'd worry if the person wasn't impacted. Maybe it's not really "healthy" to go through traumatizing stuff unaffected.
Take this all on philosophical level... you cannot scan and analyze everything in life. Truth is relative in time and space anyways.
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Really no need to shout. I was trying to be respectful and understand exactly what you are saying. I ask that you do the same.
Sure, there are many people that have traumatic lives and develop mental illness. But there are many people who have had great lives and do too. I would say that is me. I have had some bumps in my life, but really nothing horrible and traumatic. Just because some people have more environmental roots of their difficulties doesn't mean that everyone does. In fact, I don't think that most medical and psychological researchers downplay the role of environment. The diathesis-stress model (where there is a predisposition that doesn't express itself unless a trigger is present) is very commonly discussed.
I agree that science can muddle correlation and causation. But we are starting to gather non-retrospective data that is helping to shed light on things. The PTSD work I am referring to was actually prospective research.
EJ