Yes mamaduke, and many people are reversing diabetes through diet and are able to go off their insulin. There are ways to heal that go beyond medication for both mental and physical issues. It isn't an imbalance, that was the old school thinking. The truth is, they don't know for certain what meds do. They help in some cases and not others. There are ways to help ourselves despite our childhood. Choices we make now, self care, meaning. Working through past traumas and neglect and finding different ways of responding. Brains are changed by trauma, but they are also plastic and we have more influence on it than Big Pharma would like us to realize. Even for psychosis. Body mind, environment and genes all go together and each one of us is unique