I also think we would mostly agree except, maybe, for a couple of points. I would be great if antidepressants were safe, but I see really alarming information to the contrary. I can't personally vouch for it, but it seems credible to me and so I sort of feel obliged to point it out. I'm thinking of that video I linked to above. Maybe the other area where we differ is that for someone who has only tried antidepressants and therapy, I feel obliged to point out medical/nutritional things to check and to try safer alternatives to drugs first.

The neurogenesis stuff is fascinating incidentally. ECT also causes neurogenesis (although it also causes memory loss) and neurogenesis is also helped by exercise, low stress, getting lots of sleep, all of which are good for depression. It even suggests that whatever helps neurogenesis might also help depression, possibly including brain training, learning difficult subjects and even taking cannabinoids.

You've happened to hit my actual area of expertise here, zinco . These would be astounding effects if they were true, but I'm afraid that it's very likely that these effect really don't exist. I know that there is a lot of crazy stuff written about quantum theory, but you wouldn't expect such effects from quantum theory either.

- vital