Thanks muchly for this.

I personally HATE the theory. My brain is not broken! I'd scream that from rooftops, if I were not afraid of being forcibly commited and doped with something that they believe corrects my imbalances.

I find this theory highly dehumanizing. "You're imbalanced, nothing wrong here, take your pills and STFU". I find it said when people who been through traumas in their life claim there's something wrong with their brains, it's all serotonin and whatnot... I guess it may be easier than to adress issues of the past, or maybe it is that "there's something wrong with you" was instilled deep into their minds...

And in the end, I don't think it matters. Yes, brain research is progress new and new drugs are made... but we aren't more and more happy or satisfied. Maybe industrialization has something to do with it, maybe the hypercompetitive society, maybe lack of real social relations people have... we gotta be open to that possibility.