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've held people children in my arms and watched them die. I've been stabbed, and killed people trying to save my friends. I've seen children being beaten for asking a tourist for some food. I've seen way to much in my 40 years. I've been told I'm a no good SOB. That I wouldn't amount to anything. I've been homeless twice thousands of miles from home. I tried to cure my problems w/ alcohol, to wash away everything, but at 22 I realized that didn't work. I spent 4 years in prison. I came back from that.
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so you have intense trauma issues and being depressed is pretty much the only humane reaction. Do you believe if you brain worked right, you'd be able to shrug this off?
(why do many traumatized people insist it's all about brain chemicals or their brains not working right?)
I still don't see the point of your brain/mind... chemistry... I don't get what you are trying to say. And I certainly don't see it as proof of rightness of chemical imbalance theory.
As I said... meds/drugs are mind altering subtances. Hence yeah... they will make you feel different. I feed on natural mind altering dope myself...
I am glad you are looking for the deeper solutions... but I still think that all the obsessing about brain chemistry is not helpful. If something helps you, than it helps... no need to justify it with unproven theories. You are very lucky drugs work for you.
Jeffro, don't take this as attack on you. I just feel the "something wrong with my brain" thing is self-demeaning in too many cases. You been through a lot... so hard to except to bounce back, same as before. For traumatized ones... the challenge is to learn to live with the past and possibly accept it may linger there to a degree. Blaming it on brain seems to me as form of self-hatered...
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