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Originally Posted by VenusHalley
Reactions to meds... so if few coctails make me less socially anxious and less embarrased to dance.... do I have ethanol imbalance?
how suprising is it, that mind alterning substances make you feel different? Nothing wrong with that... but it doesn't really prove that much. Especially considering the fact that very little group of people can just pop a pill and feel better without doing anything else... most of them need to solve their life issues as well. And I am not talking of eating right merely... it involves interpersonal relations, spiritual questions for many... finding one's own way...
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I suggest that you go online and ask the question "Is there a chemical imbalance in the brain in some depressions?". I started a longer article, but since the information is out there about new research on brain chemistry imbalance in some forms of depression, I see no need to defend a position widely held by researchers in the area of depression.
To suggest that ingestion of ethanol would cause chemical imbalance is ludicrous. Of course, it does, but only in a temporary state.
Severe depression is completely different in degree, treatment, etc., and it can easily be (and often is) a chemical imbalance. Suggesting that people solve their inner problems is wonderful; that's what most people who suffer from severe depression have tried to do all of their lives, in some cases.
It is true that the pharmaceutical industry may have promulgated the use of antidepressants years ago in an effort to promote the sale of SSRIs, but more recent research has led to credibility of the treatment, particularly of severe depression as a chemical imbalance, which still seems to be widely
accepted by the medical field requiring treatment with use of medications that increase serotonin neurotransmitters.
I will also point out that, years ago, bright psychiatrists (referring here to my own) warned about the use of alcohol with librium treatment--it might have caused coma. This is the type of warning considered a "black box" warning for drug interactions with alcohol.
Blue Mountains is right; the use of alcohol often is a hot subject on this forum.