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The concept of a 'chemical imbalance' as the cause of mental illness is a theory. The fact that medication helps people supports that theory. However, caffeine sometimes helps me function, but it is not because I have a caffeine deficiency. Assuming such would be poor science at best and detrimental due to the implications at worst. Use adrenaline instead of caffeine if you want an example of something the body produces naturally. It would be awfully silly if we found that epinephrine can help certain afflictions, assumed that people with those afflictions had an epinephrine deficiency, and left it at that.
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My fellow student thanked in his thesis to distrubutors of energy drinks "I would never be able to do this without your products". While I was not so cheeky... I wouldnt be able to get my master's degree without legal OTC stimulants either. I will probably will never be able to function fully without coffee/redbull/guarana/yerba mate... It's question if it's me having "medical condition" or if it's that were really weren't designed to use our brains in such a way we do today.
I am not being snarky here... caffeine analysis is actually better then my alcohol analysis. I am stealing it.
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