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Originally Posted by thickntired
I was in patient where the Dr did a brain scan and said I had s chemical imbalance. A good friend just got out of rehab where they did a cat scan and mri. From these tests they gathered the info that her illness was not just alcoholism. I read a book called Beautiful Boy about a meth addict. When he was in withdrawal a Dr did a brain scan to prove that his symptoms were resulting from withdrawal. Those symptoms included severe depression.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/he...anted=all&_r=0
http://ftp.nimh.nih.gov/health/publi...in/index.shtml
Here are the facts about brain scans. Your doctor can not see a chemical imbalance. He saw activity and determined you have "some sort of MI" and then spewed the myth. Did you start taking meds before or after the scan?
What's interesting about the cited studies is the patients with disorders have had them for a long time which means they were most likely already on medication. There is no question that meds alter the brain...how can anyone taking meds not believe this? I find this to be a fundamental flaw in the most publicized research. As the nyt article points out they need to follow people from childhood to adulthood for a good study. Not going to happen.
http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/06/...age-an-update/
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"The trouble with this interpretation was that all the people in these studies were taking antipsychotic drugs. Peter Breggin suggested that the smaller brains and larger brain cavities observed in people diagnosed with schizophrenia in these and older studies using the less sensitive CT scans, were a consequence of antipsychotic drugs(3), but no one took him seriously. It was assumed that these findings revealed the brain abnormalities that were thought to constitute schizophrenia, and for a long time no one paid much attention to the effects of treatment. Where the effects of antipsychotics were explored, however, there were some indications that the drugs might have a negative impact on brain volume(4)."
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